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7 2026 Creature Comfort
I feel comfortable most when I'm at home. There I have everything I want and need. I feel comfortable out in the woods or in the country. It's the place that makes me feel most at home. Away from people. I'm most uncomfortable when I'm in an unfamiliar place or driving to a place I've never been. It's the unknown among places and people and other things unknown that make me most uncomfortable. Does the future feel comfortable? Does my past make me comfortable? Depends. If the future means a nice soft beach chair sitting by the ocean watching the sunset, then yes it feels comfortable. If the past means the happy, carefree days of my youth when I had the energy to run and play all day with my friends then yes it feels comfortable. If my past means all my past failures, mistakes, disappointments, and broken dreams, then of course it makes me uncomfortable and I avoid thinking about those things. If the future means the coming of Armageddon and calamity and disaster, then what comfort is there in thinking of those things? But if the future means a home in heaven then I can face the future, forget the broken past, and live in the present awaiting the appearance of my Lord and Savior trusting him to mend my past and bring me to a bright, hopeful future. The verses you should read today are found in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 and 4. God comforts us when we cannot do what we need to do because only he can do what needs to be done. So he said, don't look to what you see but look to what you cannot see. That which is seen, all this bad news and all the trials and tribulations and affliction of the world today along with all our past sins, all this is temporal. What is not seen is the vast, eternal and infinite love and mercy and grace of God which we shall experience forever in His endless Kingdom of delight, where never again will there be sin, or pain, or death. Be comforted in knowing this: that your name is written in heaven. Rejoice in this if nothing else you see is going right.
I feel comfortable most when I'm at home. There I have everything I want and need. I feel comfortable out in the woods or in the country. It's the place that makes me feel most at home. Away from people. I'm most uncomfortable when I'm in an unfamiliar place or driving to a place I've never been. It's the unknown among places and people and other things unknown that make me most uncomfortable. Does the future feel comfortable? Does my past make me comfortable? Depends. If the future means a nice soft beach chair sitting by the ocean watching the sunset, then yes it feels comfortable. If the past means the happy, carefree days of my youth when I had the energy to run and play all day with my friends then yes it feels comfortable. If my past means all my past failures, mistakes, disappointments, and broken dreams, then of course it makes me uncomfortable and I avoid thinking about those things. If the future means the coming of Armageddon and calamity and disaster, then what comfort is there in thinking of those things? But if the future means a home in heaven then I can face the future, forget the broken past, and live in the present awaiting the appearance of my Lord and Savior trusting him to mend my past and bring me to a bright, hopeful future. The verses you should read today are found in 2 Corinthians chapter 1 and 4. God comforts us when we cannot do what we need to do because only he can do what needs to be done. So he said, don't look to what you see but look to what you cannot see. That which is seen, all this bad news and all the trials and tribulations and affliction of the world today along with all our past sins, all this is temporal. What is not seen is the vast, eternal and infinite love and mercy and grace of God which we shall experience forever in His endless Kingdom of delight, where never again will there be sin, or pain, or death. Be comforted in knowing this: that your name is written in heaven. Rejoice in this if nothing else you see is going right.
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