Do we really ever need to get out of our comfort zones, or not?

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Saint Matthew's Gospel, chapter 28, verses, 28 to 30, contains this interesting promise from Jesus Christ to us all. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light." This would infer to me, that Jesus is living comfortably in himself, as himself, and he invites us all to do the same. We need to find our own comfort in him. This is contrary, of course to what some self-help authors tell us to do. Some such well-known self-help guru type of a guy on the internet said, "that if you want to be comfortable with your life, to get used to being uncomfortable, be comfortable with the uncomfortable." This sounds good of course, as most of these trite, and overly simplistic formulas always do. This guy was talking about our getting out of our own comfort zone, by our taking risks, embracing challenges, and taking on new experiences, not just sticking to our old routines and habitual ways of doing things, and thinking about things. So, be comfortable with sin, do not mind it, he might also be inferring here, or is he? God and love have no comfort zones. God and love just exist, as they are. To say that anything has an existing comfort zone is to say that they are not perfect as they are now. Everything is always working from its own perfection in God. This means that it is only if you step away from that perfection of God in yourself, do you ever feel discomfort, from your not being in continual contact with God, and his love. Then you need to reach past that discomfort again to find your comfort in God and his love again. Never leave God again, and you will never feel the discomforting feelings of separation, and you will live within God's love, knowingly then, at all times. The way of the world gets into these dualities of discussiveness, (comfort and discomfort, for example) but, really all is always really one in God. There is no discomfort in us, when we abide in God always too. Faith and trust, help, but mostly it is our loving God, with our whole being that allows us to stay this way, always comfortable in our lives, within God. Saint Matthew's gospel tells us to do just this, in chapter 22, verse 37: "Jesus said: 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.'" If we could always do this, we will always be comfortable in all things then too. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com We should be always comfortable in our own skins, and everywhere else too, like this cat here.