Day 14 - Attachment to Comfort
Begin with prayer -
Meditation -
At a biological level, all human beings have an attachment to comfort. Being uncomfortable results in stress and the effort required to reach equilibrium again. We don't want that. We don't like to expend effort, it drains our limited resources. This biological attachment is easy to see, yet what about the less obvious ways we are attached to comfort? Sin can be comfortable and familiar, but that is not the most subtle way an attachment to comfort may manifest. Think about the cliche that we don't like to leave our "comfort zone." We can become attached to simply living our lives in the way that is the most comfortable, strolling lazily along without much thought to the call to greatness that we have been given in baptism. Saint Paul writes "Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been purchased at a price. Therefore glorify God in your body." (1 Cor. 6:19-20)
What does it mean to glorify God through your life? What does it mean to live as a temple of the Holy Spirit? We are not made to be comfortable, but for greatness: true love, heroic sacrifice, and the Trinity. Think about the ways God is calling you away from comfort to Himself and ask Him to help you recognize the attachments you have to comfort. Ask God to replace these attachments with a longing for life with Him.