The best self-care is to tear down the comfort zones that trap us in habits that ensnare us in self-destructive thoughts, words, desires, feelings, and behaviors. Personal and spiritual growth require that we tear down our comfort zones and reform the “home office” of our heart and our lifestyle.
When we find ourselves living within our comfort zones we are ignoring the uncomfortable verses in the Bible. God the Holy Spirit is working to interrupt and to disrupt our comfort zones. He wants to set us free from being conformed to the world, (Romans 12:2) from tradition, (Mark 7:13) from routine religion, (Mark 7:6), from passivity, (James 1:22) from enjoying the pleasures of sin, (Hebrews 11:25) from quenching the Spirit, (1 Thessalonians 5:19) from the desires of the flesh, (1 John 2:16) from the deceitfulness of riches, Mark 4:19) from pride, (Romans 12:16) from self-righteousness, (Romans 10:3) and from anything else that goes against His will. Will we allow God the Holy Spirit to set us free? If so, when?
Hear God say this to you: “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” (Ezekiel 36:26) Then pray this every time you stray away from His perfect will: “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10)
Comfortable Christianity is powerless (2 Timothy 3:5). True Christianity is about divine interventions that confront our comfort zones and lead us into ongoing radical obedience to the living, resurrected Jesus. The body of Christ is far bigger than most Christians realize. No matter how uncomfortable it may be, God wants us to connect heart-to-heart in the Holy Spirit with Christ-followers from various traditions, churches, doctrines, ethnicities, nationalities and races. (John 17:20-21)
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