STRETCH
YOUR COMFORT ZONE - By Justus Ondieki
No way out. This has been my place
for many years. I don’t want to move out. This is my place. Why call it my
place? Because I was born here. I was raised here. I have my family here. I
have friends here. I am well connected here. What else do I want? I really
don’t see the need for me to move out from this place. For me I love my work
place, my bosses treat me well and they are always there for me. This is a sure
place to be, the best place to be! Besides it is comfortable and I don’t need
to struggle a lot.
Oh my goodness! The above words are
common to us. Ever heard people say any of the words above? I may not know
about you but I sure have heard it severally. But today I would love us in this
30th edition of the Good News Magazine to share on “Stretch
Your Comfort Zone.” So welcome back our dear readers.
It is often difficult when you are
told to do something you aren’t used to do. More so, when God calls you to work
for Him. The moment you start acting in obedience to the Lord’s voice and move
by faith, things start happening. In the beginning it might seem harder, but as
you hold on and persevere, you will definitely begin to see the fruits of
obedience.
Now in Deuteronomy 1:6-8 the scripture says, “The LORD our God spake unto us
in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt long enough in this mount: Turn you, and take
your journey, and go to the mount of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh
thereunto, in the plain, in the hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and
by the sea side, to the land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great
river, the river Euphrates. Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and
possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them”.
From the above scripture we
see that Moses had led the children of Israel out of Egypt. Along the way, they
were scared, ready to turn around and go back to Egypt. God had parted the Red
Sea, led the people through on dry land, drowned the Egyptians, and landed them
safely at Horeb, the mountain of God. Now, here it seemed too comfortable. They
didn’t want to leave. It was a good place to be. But you know what, God had a
bigger plan for them than being at Horeb, no wonder God told them they had
dwelt long enough in that mount. A time had come to move out. The comfort was
to be over. The pleasures of Mount Horeb if there were any at all had to end
now! No more living there. No more sleeping there. There was need to move out.
Why? God had better plans for the children of Israel.
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