Discipleship

What does it mean to be a disciple of Christ? How does that play out in your life? Are you in a comfortable place, as a disciple, or are you struggling with the place God has you?

I was spending some time with a member recently, and he shared that he was not comfortable with where God had him, and he was glad. When we get comfortable, it is time to move on to a new challenge. To follow Christ is not to be in a comfort zone. It is to be stretching and moving to new places where there is faith, rather than comfort.

Have you ever read and then struggled with the following passage? These are words from our Lord.

Matthew 10:32-39 - 32 "Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. 33 But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven. 34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. 35 For I have come to turn "'a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law— 36 a man's enemies will be the members of his own household.' 37 "Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38 and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

I do not see comfortable in any of these verses. Where are you, as a disciple of Christ, going to places where you are not comfortable - serving your Lord?

Your thoughts?