Comfortable?...Let Me Get You a Pillow

The Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel is one of my favorite shows on TV right now. these dudes are insane. there is not doubt in my mind why they call it one of the most dangerous jobs in the world. crab fishing in the Bering Sea in 40 foot swells and negative degree weather. not for me. these are are on the frontier of danger, they go looking for it so they can catch some crab and make some money. the thought for me is: why on earth would anyone want to choose to do that? who would want to work in the freezing cold, work for 50 hours at a time with no sleep or rest? these guys intentionally choose to do this. why? because they know that that's what they love to do and they will get paid the the big bucks for it.

why isn't Christianity like this? it used to be. there was a time were that if you were a Christ follower or if you followed God you would be persecuted. Just look at Hebrews 11:37 and see what the prophets had to go through. what my issue is, is that Christianity has become such a comfortable thing. there is nothing really that makes it how it used to be when it was first getting started. we are all comfortable with the routine that we have when it comes to Sunday. We get up, go to a service, hear a message, listen to some music, maybe lift up our hands during the songs, leave church, go to breakfast, and never think about the message again.

the question is why is it OK for us to sit back in our comfortable chairs and not be out on the front lines and maybe put ourselves in an uncomfortable situation? when we look at the verses in Matthew 5:10-12 why would we not want to be like the guys on the Deadliest Catch and put ourselves in the uncomfortable situation? i feel that many Christian have lost the passion to go out among the world and tell people about the Gospel. we feel that the only the pastor does that on Sundays. i am not saying to go out and start a fight or anything. what i am saying needs to happen is that we need to stop going to "church" and start going out and BEING the church.

CHURCH IS NOT A NOUN IT IS A VERB!

in Matthew 10 when Jesus sends out his disciples, he warns them that they will be laughed at and mocked. yet they all still out and spread the word of Jesus. most of them later died proclaiming the word of God. would we really step out and and put ourselves on the front lines, for us to step our of our little routine or bubble we live in with church, and make being a Christian not such a comfortable thing.

i truly believe that as soon as we become comfortable is when we have a problem. that is NOT what we are called to do. we are called to go out, to be uncomfortable, not to sit back and relax and enjoy the pretty sounds that we hear and not put what you hear into an actual action.

we need to be on the Deadliest Catch mentality. they know they are putting themselves in a tough situation, but it is for a huge benefit. we need to put ourselves in those situation, to go step out in our faith, because if we do, Jesus says we will be blessed and we might have to opportunity to allow someone to accept Jesus as Lord and Savior.

are you comfortable? you shouldn't be.

Random fact: Jellyfish evaporate in the sun. They're 98% water.