God's Call Isn't Always Comfortable!
God has a longstanding habit of calling those he loves into difficult situations. He called Abraham to leave his home and wander around in foreign lands among strangers who, as far as he knew, might kill him on sight. He called meek ole' Moses and his cowardly big brother to stand before the most powerful ruler in the known world and demand the release of the Hebrew people. He called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego to defy the Babylonian King's idolatrous command and subsequently be thrown into a fiery furnace — just as Daniel was tossed into a den of lions after God called him to keep praying despite King Darius' decree.
The Scriptures are chock-full of stories about God's many suffering servants. But they all point beyond themselves to the beautiful, bloody story of the long foretold Suffering Servant (Isaiah 52). God's own Son stepped away from his eternal glory to live a perfectly righteous life in human form so that he could gift that righteousness to wicked sinners, and take the sins of those wicked men upon himself and allow God's wrath to crush him instead of them. Christ suffered more intensely than any person ever has or ever will — and he did all of this according to the will of his Father (Isaiah 53:10). God called Jesus to the ultimate discomfort so that we, the undeserving recipients of his mercy, could escape eternal discomfort.
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