It is necessary to preface that I am no theologian, and that I have never read most of the Bible. My only claim to theological credibility is that nobody is paying me to say what I am saying. Considering the views on my blog, nobody would consider paying me to lie about Jesus, but that's neither here nor there. For I do not need to be a theologian to see that we as a society have put comfort before God for a while now.
In my profoundly biased and reliably un-researched opinion, there are several kinds of comforts that we place before God, sometimes on a daily basis. I would divide them into material, social, and spiritual comforts.
First, let us look at material comforts. There are quite many of these, such as driving a mile to the grocery store to get like ten pounds of groceries. Barring actually unhealthy weather or time pressure, you can walk that. Then there are the many comforts afforded by social media and Big Tech. The cult of free is a cult. Eating out is a comfort too. The list goes on. In my opinion, many material comforts can be avoided by able-bodied people, and some of them definitely should. A twenty minute walk to the grocery store is a great opportunity for prayer, among other things.
Then there are social comforts. A prime example of these would be to never argue with the SJW relative(s), with the greedy Boomer uncle, et cetera. This attachment to social harmony and comfort has convinced many freakshows that their insanity is not only moral, but also popular. Since they do not care about morality, letting them think they are socially accepted is comfortable, but it aids and abets their evil. Hint: when they find out that you read VP or that you voted for GEOTUS, they will hate you anyway. Might as well confront them about their insanity, show them that nobody agrees with their garbage.
Finally, we get to spiritual comforts. I would define these as every time we try to warp theology to be more comfortable about our own lives. There are many of these. WASPs love to pretend that the stock market is any less gambling than Vegas is. Left-leaning Christians love to pretend that Jesus does not have clear prescriptions about family and gender, I personally love to pretend that the words that I use and the media that I consume do not affect my spiritual life and that of my friends, et cetera.
I invite you, dear reader, to take a moment to consider things that you perhaps should not be doing, that are comfortable.
Now onto the reason to forego these comforts, which is twofold. The first is the rather obvious one that a good amount of these comforts are vices, even sins, so they should be avoided on their own merits, or rather their lack thereof.
The second reason is that I believe that God is about to, if not already in the process of, taking these comforts away from us, such that we may return our focus to Him and Him alone. In this way, God is doing our souls a favor, as He is clearing away some distractions. However, this entails that we will have to make do without these comforts. If we get used to discomfort now, we will be better equipped to love God and neighbor when the rest of the world goes cold turkey on the comfortable life. Good times create weak men, and the hard times will be shorter if we become strong men ahead of schedule. Much love!
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