Out of the Comfort Zone

In my quiet time the other night I read a quote from Samuel Rutherford that made me think about the plans we have for our lives and the ways in which God shows us that is plans are different and even better than ours. "If God had told me some time ago that He was about to make me as happy as I could be in this world and then had told me that He should begin by crippling me in arm or limb and removing from me all my usual sources of enjoyment, I should have thought it a very strange mode of accomplishing His purpose. And yet, how is His wisdom manifest even in this. For is you should see a man shut up in a closed room idolizing a set of lamps and rejoicing in their light and you wished to make him truly happy, you would begin by blowing out all of his lamps and then throw open the shutters to let in the light of heaven." I think everyone has expectations for what their life should be, plans for their life and would never imagine that the most trying and difficult times in their life is when they are closest to God and have the most joy. May we all remember and reflect on the fact that He is the potter and we are the clay, that our home is in heaven, and that He is our savior.
"I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe." Ephesians 1:17-19