Expand Your Comfort Zone

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When we love others, we know that we belong to the truth, and we feel at ease in the presence of God.  But even if we don't feel at ease, God is greater than our feelings, and he knows everything.  Dear friends, if we feel at ease in the presence of God, we will have the courage to come near him.  He will give us whatever we ask, because we obey him and do what pleases him.  God wants us to have faith in his Son Jesus Christ and to love each other. This is also what Jesus taught us to do.

1 John 3:19-23

Are you comfortable in the presence of God?  In some ways that is a strange question, but it is an important one.  How can a human being, most of whom weigh between one and two hundred pounds, and has a brain that weighs only about three pounds be comfortable in the presence of Almighty and Eternal, Creator God?

There is a way for us to be at ease with God and these verses clearly tell us.  Since human beings are made in the Image of God, and God is Love when we love each other we can be "at ease" in the presence of God! 

When you truly love someone, you are doing what God does!  He made you in His image, and if you are a Jesus Follower you have the Holy Spirit living inside you.  When you love others you are being like God.  Perhaps that is why the Bible tells us to love our enemies, because that is what God does!

Loving other people is the test of your heart!  If you love other people, then you are like God and you will be comfortable in His presence.  Of course, faith in Jesus Christ is the only Way to come into the presence of God!  If you try to come to God without faith in Jesus, you will not succeed.

Faith in Jesus Christ and loving other men, as God does, will expand your comfort Zone to include God Himself!

"Lord Jesus make my heart like Yours and help me to love everyone as You always do!  Praise Your Holy and Righteous Name, now and forever.  Amen."