Where Comfort Ends, Calling Begins
Sunday Rewind is a 5-day Devotional based on the weekly sermon at Resonate Community Church
November 23rd Sermon, Day 4
There's something beautiful and terrifying about this truth: our calling often begins exactly where our comfort ends. Peter discovered this when Jesus revealed that following Him would lead to a cross, not a crown. Everything Peter thought he knew about his future with Jesus was suddenly turned upside down.
But here's what Peter couldn't see in that moment - this uncomfortable revelation was actually the beginning of his greatest calling. God has a way of using our most uncomfortable moments to birth our most significant purposes. The job loss that leads to a new career. The health scare that redirects our priorities. The relationship that ends and opens our hearts to serve others in pain. The dream that dies and makes room for God's bigger dream. We naturally resist discomfort, but God often uses it as a doorway to something greater. This doesn't mean God causes our pain, but He certainly knows how to use it for our good and His glory.
When Jesus disrupted Peter's comfortable expectations, He wasn't being cruel - He was preparing Peter for a calling that would impact the entire world. Sometimes God has to make us uncomfortable with where we are before we'll be willing to go where He wants to take us. The question isn't whether discomfort will come - it's whether we'll let it become a stepping stone to our calling or a stumbling block to our faith.
Bible Verse
"From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life." - Matthew 16:21
Reflection Question
What area of discomfort in your life might God be using to prepare you for a greater calling?
Quote Calling often begins where comfort ends.
Prayer
Father, help me to see discomfort not as something to avoid, but as a potential doorway to Your purposes. Give me courage to step out of my comfort zone when You're calling me to something greater. I trust that Your plans for me are good. Amen.
