Comfort or Cure

If there is one thing I'm sure of, it's that I am not unlike other people. I feel many of the same things and have similar struggles. None of us are as weird as we think. For years, I believed the lie that no one can relate to me. But it stunted me from sharing my struggles or learning from those of others.

I preface this with that because I have come to realize something new about myself during my most recent series of struggles, and I hope you can learn from it also. God has opened my eyes to how instinctively I either try to fix things or expect things of this world fix me. I tend to put my hope in others to make me feel loved, accepted or open my eyes to things they can't even see. I also find myself leaning to other "comforts" of this world before and even more often than I run to God. I know we are made for community and that creature comforts aren't necessarily sin, but God has shown me His desire to be the first and foremost comfort in my life. He wants to change the way I think to the extent that He is my first instinct.

If we want healing like we have never had, we've got to stop running to the things in this world to fix and fill us. Our human instincts tend to be wrong unless they are reprogrammed by our Creator, but only if we are willing. I see the need for it in me first. I have got to be willing to have revolutionary faith that goes beyond just saying I believe Him. I need my whole mind and heart changed, even if it takes a lifetime to complete it. It brings new meaning behind this verse:

Yet those who wait for the Lord Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary.  --Isaiah 40:31