Stepping out

Let say everyday, you succeed in your efficient choices that are not necessarily wise and productive, but just "good enough"...who are you trying to kid? You can live everyday, do the SAME thing everyday, and never go anywhere. Where you are at now is satisfactorily comfortable, the zone is free of every bad thing of the world. Whatever happened to taking chances? How are you ever going to make mistakes and learn from them?! You can't possibly live a Godly life, and still be in your comfort zone! Persecution is a active part of Christianity...where in someones right mind consider abuse, whether it be physical pain, or mental stress, a state of comfortableness?
Look at it like this: You are chopping lettuce to make a salad. You are running out of time, because everyone is waiting at the table to eat, so you start chopping at a quicker pace. You get so intensely involved in concentrating, that when someone comes into the kitchen to ask you when dinner is going to be ready, you jump, completely startled, and cut your finger so deep the bleeding seems like it will take forever to stop. Persecution is like that. We never know how much time we have left on earth (though we do know Jesus is coming soon) that we try our best to get as many people as possible to know Jesus, and for them to be ready along with us to go Home. Sometimes, we don't get the reaction we want, and it completely backfires, leaving you hurt, and the pain seems to have a lasting impact.
Is cutting your hand and trying so hard to stop the bleeding a comfortable process to go through? For me, considering I have cut my hands an infinite amount of times, would have to say NO.
Motivation is such a hard concept to grasp let alone hold on to. It's hard to go out and find a job, it seems impossible to even find one, considering the horrible economy we have today. It's boring to clean your room, and then have the motivation to keep it tidy. To be honest, when you use something, just put it away! Easier said then done, am I right? From my personal experience, yes of course. I hate cleaning my room, though I do like to keep it somewhat organized and tidy. The whole point I'm trying to make is it's so much easier to talk ABOUT talking to others about Christ, but your motivation to actually DO IT, can be so low, you have no desire you follow your own excitement. It's all about stepping out of the SEEZEE(comfort zone), and being ready for people to "stone" you like they did with Stephan in the Bible(Acts 7:54-60). He never saw the people stoning him as enemies. He still loved God and the people, and he was slowly dying! Now THAT is one amazing man of God! Why can't we be as forgiving and understanding as him? God gave us a heart, forgive with it, to love, and understand why it's important! God gave us a brain, to understand His Words, to memorize verses, and to use them with our own lips that He has created for us speak of the Holy Spirit! Not just to fellow Christians. It's so much more important for the troubled and those that "Don't got no JESUS!" in their hearts to hear such words of love, comfort, peace, and faith of which the Bible brings for such a time as this! This world is not a friendly place. Any comfort, "love", entertainment, etc, the world brings is ever so temporary. When it ends, the only thing you feel inside you is emptiness. You can never be fully satisfied with anything it brings. It's all FALSE ADVERTISEMENT.
One thing we should know is God is SOVEREIGN, never failing, full of hope, and joy! He is the one you can run to when you feel alone, the one who will give you the full loving hug you need, when others barely give you a handshake.
Again, what I'm trying to come to is, people need to hear this. WE need to be reminded of all this! It's so necessary to keep your Godly life in check, to know yourself, to not care what you have to suffer to reach out to others!
"We were meant to live for so much more, but we lost ourselves." (Switchfoot "Meant To Live" lyrics). It's true. We often lose ourselves. It's all fear and confusion. We can blame our sin for that, but we can NEVER blame anyone, or anything, because we know who we live for, and what we are on earth for.
You just have to 1. Believe it! 2. Recieve it! 3. Enough procrastinating! 4. Act upon it! 5. Testify! 6. Have perseverance! 7. Enough is enough....just BREATHE!
I guess I have had my say...LET'S use our gifts God gave us for Him, and use it to save people!
NOW!