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Christ Must Reorient Us!!!

All of us have a natural tendency to find our "comfort zone" and then position ourselves firmly in place, or camp out as I call it. If we are in a situation or lifestyle where we are perfectly capable of handling everything, we need to be shaken up! We are in a place in life where we have stopped growing in our understanding of God. God's desire is to take us from where we are to where He wants us to be. We will always be one step away from the next truth God wants us to learn about Him. We may experience a restlessness where we sense that there is far more we should be learning and experiencing about God. At times, this could mean that we might have to move to a new location, maybe take a new job, or even find ourself in a different church. It could indicate that we need a deeper dimension added to our prayer life. Maybe we need to trust God to a degree we never have trusted Him before.

"When He had gone a little farther from there, He saw James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, who also were in the boat mending their nets. And immediately He called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants, and went after Him." Mark 1:19-20.

The fisherman could not remain in their fishing boats and become apostles of Jesus. Abraham was seventy five years old when God gave him his major life assignment. These men had to disrupt their comfortable routine in order to reach new heights in their relationship with their Lord. This is the same with us. In order to experience God to the degree He wants us to, there WILL be adjustments He will ask us to make. The question we need to answer is this: Are we prepared for Jesus to reveal Himself to us in dimensions that will change our life? The fishermen were prepared to leave everything behind to follow their Lord to wherever He wanted them to go. Are we willing to abandon all that makes us comfortable? If we answer no, we are saying that we don't want to go farther with our Lord. What blessings will we be missing out on?

May God Richly Bless You Today!! H Trent!

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