Consider this

            When I moved to Estevan, I owned a “Pontiac Acadian”.    It was a small, four cylinder, five speed car that was fun to drive around town.    I liked it a lot.   That is until the day that I drove it from Moose Jaw to Winnipeg.   After eight hours, my back hurt and my neck was sore and I did not want to drive that car another mile.             “Comfort” is something that most people look for in a car.   It is considered a good quality.   In fact, comfort is one of the most valued aspects of life these days.   You hear people saying things like, “We just need a big house so that we are comfortable”, or “I am trying to save enough to be comfortable in retirement”.    Comfort is one of our main goals.             However, when it comes to your spiritual life, comfortable is not ok!             If comfort is our goal, then we will never think, stretch, grow, be challenged or change.   Faith, by its very nature, requires us to be “uncomfortable” and to live life in way

            “Shortly before dawn Jesus went out to them, walking on the lake. When the disciples saw him walking on the lake, they were terrified. ‘It’s a ghost,’ they said, and cried out in fear. But Jesus immediately said to them: ‘Take courage! It is I. Don’t be afraid.’   ‘Lord, if it’s you,’ Peter replied, ‘tell me to come to you on the water.’ ‘Come,’ he said” (Matthew 14:25-29).             I have a simple question for you: Why did Peter ask to get out of the boat?             I mean, he had spent his whole life being a fisherman.   He had been through many storms on that lake.   He knew that the best place to be was in the boat, so why did he ask to get out of it?             I do not think that Peter was trying to test Jesus’ power.   If that was the case, he could have asked for a safer miracle like, “Lord, if it is you, transport me to the shore instantly!”               I think that Peter asked to get out of the boat for one reason:   He wanted to be close to J