Its it possible for one to get to that state? I believe it is...oh dear I have a feeling this could be a deep, reflective, negative, late night post...not a good combination for what Im about to say...but hey it makes interesting reading...
So yeah comfortably numb...not only is it the title to a great Pink floyd song, I believe it is also a state one can get into, espcially as a christian. Its that state where you think everything is ok in your life and hence you dont really need to do much...When actually you're in danger of going nowhere...even possibly slipping backwards...
You're at that stage where you've got your life "sorted" you read you bible everyday, pray a bit, go to the college CU everyweek, go to church on a sunday, hang out with your christian mates...everything seems fine on the outside...yet on the inside you know its not really there...your quiet times dont give you what you know you can get out of them, you only read your bible for five minutes each day instead of the former 15. You only pray for a few minutes after reading your bible....you forget to pray for your friends...your mind wanders as you pray...you end up not praying...it all seems futile...your mind starts to dwell on things it really shouldn't...you begin to doubt the very existance of God...and yet you still think everything is ok. You continue walking in the same rut...the same routines...getting blinder and blinder and yet still thinking you know where you're going...Its a poor state to be in...I know...Im there...but hallelujah there's! a way out!
The Bible tells us that life aint going to be easy and that troubles and testing times are going to come upon us... infact Jesus himself tell us it wont be easy...he himself went through the most testing of times and yet managed to say "Not my will, but your's" Jesus persisted on God path first when the devil tempted him in the wilderness, then through the terible time of the crucifixition...and yet cos he persisted and kept his eyes on the Father in heaven he got through and now sits in glory at the side of the Father! Hallelujah!
The writer of Hebrews tells us "...since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run iwth endurance the race which is set before us, looking unto Yeshua, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God" (Heb 12:1-2)
Let me encourage you that there is a way out of being comfortably numb...to do exactly as Heb 12:1-2 tells us...to keep our eyes on Jesus and run the good race...for he has ran the race and won! and hallelujah for that!
Wow I feel better already!
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