"Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven has come near! (Mat. 4:17)
Jesus could have started his preaching ministry with a nicer message. The call to repentance is actually counter productive if your goal is to gain followers.
But Jesus wasn't betting his success on catering to people's pursuit of comfort. He appealed to those who were seeking the truth. They are the ones who are ready to come out of their comfort zone. Many preachers today try to build a "following".
Jesus came to call us to start living in the truth.
One of the most important principles we can base our life, our ministry or our business on is this: Truth is more important than comfort!
The axis around which your life will revolve is either truth or comfort. But it can't be both!
Granted, to live in light of God's truth it doesn't mean you don't have peace, joy and inner confidence. What it means that you never allow those to hinder you from going deeper, higher and wider!
If you tolerate a bad habit, don't shut God out - seek deliverance from it! If you can't seem to grasp some things - don't pretend you do, learn instead! Whatever it is - seek God's objective truth about it!
The Kingdom is about Truth a lot more than it is about comfort, if at all!
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