When you think about it, a Comfort Zone ought to be hard to break through—after all, we have spent so much time building it. A Comfort Zone is our cozy quilt of relationships. It’s the padding of routines that make us feel good. It’s the security fence of acceptable behavior. It’s the steel mesh of our past successes and failures.
Our Comfort Zone completely surrounds our life in Familiar, and it feels comfortable. Inside our Comfort Zone, we feel safe. We’re pretty sure we can succeed, look good, and feel happy there.
Outside, well, who knows? Outside everyone’s Comfort Zone lies the great Unknown. That’s why we don’t want to go there. Now, there’s nothing wrong with a Comfort Zone. After all, no one likes danger and uncertainty. No one signs up for discomfort.
Yet a Comfort Zone can become a barrier, too. Why? Because our vision always lies outside our Comfort Zone. That means we will have to leave what feels comfortable if we want to achieve our Dream. We face a choice: we could either feel comfort but give up our vision, or feel fear and pursue it.
You might think that if only you were braver or stronger, you wouldn’t have to struggle so much with that choice. But every visionary does, no matter how talented or brave.
----Bruce Wilkinson
In true life situations or practical terms, principled and disciplined people who take the extra effort in doing things and people who go the extra mile are the people who achieve extra ordinary things e.g. sports men. Christ whom we profess; as the Bible states, woke up in the very early hours of the day to seek the face of God when most people will be sleeping, this is probably one of the reasons responsible for the extra ordinary things He did. So also Jesus Christ endured the cross despite the fact that he had the authority and power to do and undo. Which has lead to our own salvation. If Jesus had not left His comfort zone one can imagine what the world would be like now. Leaving our comfort zones would eventually bring about experience. With the use and time of this experiences one is bound to be skilful if we do not quit i.e. we are expected to go from one level of grace to a higher and better level. It is quite obvious that this enablement or grace is inherent in us but we need to step out in faith and exercise that which God has embedded in us to be able to move from one level to another higher level depending on our faith and relationship with God. In very clear terms no cross no victory! Jesus Christ himself even though a son learnt obedience through the things he suffered (Hebrews 5:8).
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