God uses empires, people, and circumstances to comfort and afflict the people He created and loves.
“Though I have afflicted you, I will afflict you no longer. So now, I will break [Assyria’s] yoke bar from upon you, and I will tear off your shackles,” (Nahum 1.12-13 NAS).
I must never make the pursuit of comfort my primary objective. The comfort I create for myself is an illusion that disappears before I can fully enjoy it. It never satisfies the way I imagine it will. When I chase and apprehend the comfortable and easy life, I am disappointed. It leaves me feeling cold, empty, and unfulfilled. The pursuit of comfort is an idol, a false god.
