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What Does Courage Look Like?
Comfort and courage rarely accompany each other.
Humans are hardwired to seek comfort or perhaps culture sells us that lie and we buy into it because it’s easy.
There’s a magnetism that goes with comfort. Just when I get the courage needed to challenge me, the lure of earthly success or buying the next “thing” gets me off track.
I sat down to have coffee with God this morning but had nothing to say.
Every time I tried to think of something to ask Him, that didn’t center around my future, my life, my, my, I drew a blank.
It was like meeting with someone you don’t know all that well and trying to come up with something to say.
Am I that consumed with my future, my life, my comfort that I have nothing else to ask the creator of the universe?
That’s sad, really sad.
I’m sure God had things He wanted to talk about but I was the one who was supposed to come up with the questions….my mind started to wander.
We watched the movie “Bonhoeffer” last night about a German pastor who paid the ultimate price fighting the German Church and Hitler. Bonhoeffer has such resolve in the movie it caused me to ask “how could he be so sure that was God?”
Perhaps I’m expecting too much from these first Coffee With God sessions ?
Maybe I’m trying too hard, like I do with everything.
Then the questions started coming.
“God, why do you allow humans to be so horrible to each other?”
“God, do you ever feel like scrapping this whole human experiment and starting over?”
“God, why is comparing our lives to the lives of others so easy to do and how do we stop it?”
Okay that last one was about me but two out of three ain’t bad for a first meeting right?
Someone gave me a verse the other day I’d like to leave with you.
It ties up the theme of the movie and the era with which I think many of us are moving. Comfort is our enemy IF courage is our end all.
Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go".
“God, tomorrow same time same place?”
Oh, never mind, there I go planning again.
I’ll catch up with you on our run this morning.
Rick...I enjoy these posts as they are real and though provoking. Courage is living by faith faith is trusting things unseen. We continually try putting God on our time line, when in fact we are on his timeline. I speak with and have conversations with him almost every minute of every day. I think we all try to understand the why of things, and I was raised that why is the most important question. One day I pray I have the courage to trust God enough without having to ask why...