Do Hard Things Challenge 4

This week's challenge is to get out of that comfort zone you've been in for so long. Here are a few thoughts about comfort zones:

1: Fear hinders faith but Faith overcomes fear
2: Your willingness or unwillingness to leave your comfort zones is a measure of the depth of your Faith.
3: Your excuses for not stepping outside your comfort zone speaks volumes of what you believe about God.
4: "God works through our weaknesses to accomplish his big plans"
5: "Courage is not the absence of fear"
6: "You can’t get to success without risking failure"

There were some great quotes in Do Hard Things last week. Here are a few for you to ponder.

"...our comfort zones [are] nearly always built of fear.” (p69)
“...you can’t live by fear and live by faith at the same time. “ (p69)
“...fears are usually just well-concealed lies.” (p69)
“...a comfort zone is actually a miserable place.” (p70)
Staying inside your comfort zone is “essentially refusing to surrender [your] life fully to God.” (p70)
“And by our actions, we’re also saying that God isn’t good and powerful enough to help us do what we can’t comfortably do on our own.” (p71)
“shyness is a form of selfishness” (p72)
“Letting fear control your actions is a statement of distrust in the goodness of God” (p77)

Finally, what are we really saying when we stay in our comfort zones?

When I Say:
1. I’m not as good at something as someone else (p72)
2. I don’t have all the resources I think I need (p72)
3. I figure that the chances of failing and looking like a loser are too high. (p72)

I am Really Saying:
1. God only uses the best and brightest (p72)
2. He only uses me when every last thing is in place (p72
3. He only brings glory to Himself when I...bring glory to myself (p72)

This week be a zone breaker. Have that conversation you’ve been avoiding. Sit with that person you’ve been ignoring. Tell your parents what you appreciate about them. Confront that sin you’ve been coddling. Start that project that seems beyond you. Remember this is the first step to doing hard things!