You Should Not Be Comfortable

"Put your thoughts and feelings aside and only hear God. God is always growing and changing us, and it is good not to be comfortable, because if we are comfortable we are not open to the change God could be making in us. God will put the answers on our hearts.......all in His Timing."
This great advice was given to me by a college friend 3 years ago and it still stands true in my life today because I'm not done changing. It was when I was going through some changing in my life. My friend also gave me steps in that letter that I just recongized this season of my life. When you want to know something or have questions, when should
ask the Right One and that is God. If we are in the middle of trying to firugre out which way to go,
we need to pray and have others pray for us.
 Pray for wisdom and guidence and for His Will to be done in our lives. I got that back then in college when this was wrote but something I didn't get and am learning a lot right now is
"talking to some trusted others about what is going on in my life and what I am thinking."
I looked at that line and thought it just meant my closest friends which it can but we also need older and wiser people in our lives. We need them to see what they have been through and what they did to get through it. We need to bounce our ideas off of them to see if they will even work because they could sound great to us but not work in real life. We might have to be told over a million of times what we need to work on in our lives to get to the next step where we want to be. I'm talking to a lot of people (friends) right now. Trying to be more open and vaulable so they can see the true me as I'm learning the true me. People can't know us or help us if we don't show them who we are. God is growing and changing me this way too because I've always been in the comfort zone of just me and not sharing who I am but just listening to the other people. If I want to be a leader or anything if I truly want to care about people and have real relationships and friendships with them then I need to open up more and I'm learning. I'm stepping out of my "comfort zone" so that God can change me into who He knows I can be and do what He knows I can do. Sometimes we think our "comfort zones" are moving somewhere or getting a new job or new friends. We never really think about it has ever having to do with our personality but it does. We get so caught up in things and like it that way but once we see that way doesn't work we need to change that. I think finilly, no, I know that what I have been doing in the past years have not work so I'm trying something new. I'm stepping out of my comfort zone slowly but surely and sometimes when you have been in that "zone" for so long that is what it takes. When I say talking to some others about things, I mean things like what is truly bothering us, our dreams, and just every day life. People can give us prepective that we can't see or they can encourage us towards our dreams because no matter who you are making our dreams come true is hard and we need some kind of encouragement. I know I share a lot on this blog but that is because I hope people will read it and get something from it that they can use in their life. One of my goals is to share things like this by talking one on one with someone who really needs it instead of writing it on here but for now this will work. Do you have a "comfort zone" you need to step out of even if it has to do with your personality? Have you been doing the same thing over and it just hasn't worked at all? It is time to let God change and grow you? I couldn't be more thankful for that letter from my friend and if only they knew how much it meant to me in the past 2 years. It has blessed and helped me see things in a different light. Yes, just a simple letter written at least 3 years ago and that has been kept in my Bible ever since.  You never know what a little thing can do in a life of a person.