The comfort zone...

When I was in sixth grade, I went youth group for the first time. I had gone to church my whole life, but this was the first time I had ever been to youth group. We started with a worship time. As they played the first song, the lights went down and people started singing. As I looked around I could see people raising their hands, falling on their knees, and dancing. This was very weird to me. I had never seen a room full of people acting this way during worship.

As I kept going to youth group, I started to understand what this was. These people were on fire for Jesus! God was working in them, and they were responding to who He is and what He was doing in their lives. This dancing and singing and kneeling before God was a response to who He was and is. For the longest time I was so uncomfortable doing any of this stuff, and then seventh grade came. I started to lead worship for my school during chapel times. This was a step towards coming out of my comfort zone.

One morning...during youth worship...I was in the congregation. I was watching as the people around me worshiped, but I felt different. I could feel God speaking to me and telling me to stop holding back. I needed to get out of the comfort zone that I was in, and I needed to respond to what God was doing in my life.

This is something that completely changed my life, and completely changed who I am today. The church has become comfortable. Each person has become comfortable. We need to step out of the comfort zone and respond to who God is in song, in dance, in falling on our knees in praise. God is good. He deserves all of our praise.

I challenge you to take that step. To worship God with everything you have. It will change your life. Forever.