Comfort and Enslaved?

When one thinks of comfort it is usually a good thing.  As we live our life of worship, being too comfortable or satisfied with where we are at in our walk is a dangerous place.  I think it boils down to who we are obedient to in our lives. We are either obedient to every whim or want that pops into our mind or we have a higher standard to live by. For  believers, this standard is already set for us. Our tendency is that we waffle back in forth between what we want to do and what God has called us to do.(Romans 7) We abuse and take for granted the grace extended to us from the blood of God's Son that covers usPaul address this in a powerful way in Romans 6.
In Chapter 6:15 Paul states

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not! Do you not know that if you present yourselves  as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness? 

The question that I continually ask myself is, "What am I a slave to?" Am I slave to the "Sin that so easily entangles me?"(Hebrews 12:1) So often  I allow the sinful nature to enchain my heart.  This web of sin that entangles my heart chokes out my desire to be more of who God's wants me.

Sometimes one is blessed in life to have a person who can point out our deepest faults in love. They come in love to help one see just how entangled we can get in a short period of time due to laziness. In doing that, one can see the truth of what sin produces. Death! Paul says it like this is the last part of Chapter 6,
"So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit  leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life. For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

 But Now, that is an important phrase. We are FREED from sin, but we are enslaved to God! What a blessing! We are no longer under the bondage of death because of sin, so what does one continue to let sin rule in life? We  are not taking the time to "Throw off the sin"(Heb12:1) and set our eyes up on the one who can help us run the race marked out for us in victory over sin and our complacency. We must come to Him!  " Come to me all who are weary and heavy laden"(Matt 11:28)   A simple act, but so many times our pride or our business get in the way of experiencing his rest but also we miss out opportunity for God to mold us more into who we wants us to be.  All we need to do is come to Him, lay down our pre-conceived ideas on what He wants to do us and just say "Whatever you want O God, that is what I desire most!"

 Oswald chambers says this about coming to God. "Come to Me . . . ." "When you hear those words, you will know that something must happen in you before you can come. The Holy Spirit will show you what you have to do, and it will involve anything that will uproot whatever is preventing you from getting through to Jesus. And you will never get any further until you are willing to do that very thing. The Holy Spirit will search out that one immovable stronghold within you, but He cannot budge it unless you are willing to let Him do so." Don't get comfortable where you are in your spiritual walk because you will miss out on so much that God is just waiting to do in your life!