Comfort Was Never the Goal

The early church was told to spread out, but it grew comfortable and settled in Jerusalem instead, content to be saved and gathered while the world ran toward eternity without God. So God allowed something the church would never have chosen for itself: persecution. The very pressure they had tried to avoid became the thing that scattered the gospel to Ephesus, Antioch, Corinth, and Rome.

Sometimes the very thing you are praying to escape is the thing God is using to enlarge you. Do not mistake comfort for the goal. It was never the goal.