The Joys of the Cocoons We Live In

The Joys of the Cocoons We Live In

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John 3:16 NRS

"For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.

Luke 24:5 NRS

The women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here, but has risen.

We like our lives

We like:      Our Circle of friends              
                    Our beliefs
            Our problems, yes, often even our problems. 
            Our desire for the way things are.

Far too long and too often what it is we really like is
                   Our Cocoons We Live In.

We all have a ‘zone of comfort’ around us, a cocoon that many of us do not want to leave or venture from unless it seems safe for us.  In us, we know there is a better life, if we just had the courage to go find it.  Consider this example of an unborn baby.  

For an unborn baby, all the life that it knows, it has been surrounded by a warm bed, all the food it needs, seemingly no unfulfilled needs; but, in time it knows there is something on the other side and likely, it desires to know what is beyond its confines.  It hears things soothing and some things perhaps scary. It wants to grow despite its cramped living quarters; it wants to grow but is confined; it wants to grow but also likes where it is.  And, it is so much easier just to accept where it is.  It knows the other side, the other life is different, a new world is there!  Perhaps the baby is just content with where it is.  It is content with its discontent of being and existing in its limiting Cocoon.  It is all it knows.

For most of us, we feel OK in our cocoon:

We want more out of life, but do not want to leave our cocoon to change it.  

We desire life-to-the-fullest but we do the same old failed behaviors trying to reach it and achieve new results.  

We want newness in our lives, but not change.  

We may want more friends but shut out people different from ourselves.  

We dream dreams, but turn away at new opportunities.

Trapped by our own choice, we strangely accept our “freedom” in our cocoon, but are we really free?  Oh, we move freely around in our comfortable cocoon, but we are often restrained by fear.  Fear of real freedom if we venture forth, fear of failing in trying something new, we are restrained by “What will others think!”  Far too often “freedom” is just another word for the comfort we feel in the small life we have...in our cocoon.

Real freedom comes in by giving up our lives as we know it, moving forward, and trusting something beyond ourselves.  When you truly give your life to Christ, completely and totally, then in your daily living, life will change.

Have you ever thought that maybe the cocoon you live in is a quiet way you rebel against God?  Not living as God wants us to is rebellion against Him and leads to self-centered interest and general dissatisfaction with life.

If you are unsatisfied with the way things are in your life 

here are

       Four behaviors to break out of our self-made cocoon:

 

1.     Live your life daily in the example of Christ!

2.     Pray and pray and pray every day!

3.     Study, absorb and live God’s Word,

4.     Find people to share your Godly faith.

The Promise of Jesus is that when we accept Him as the Lord of our life, the Holy Spirit will come upon you and build your Faith in God to even Higher Ground and bring you peace.

Be of good courage, step out and do something new, exciting, maybe, even spectacular for Jesus.

You will be blessed by the Holy Spirit,
Live to never be satisfied with life in your own cocoon.

Jesus left His cocoon come to us, show us, and live with us, all because He loves us;  
     we serve a Risen Lord!




Thanks be to God.  
lonnie  

                                       

  

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