I don't want this to happen to me or any of you

As I studied for a message I came across a quotation that just hit me.  This is something I absolutely don't want to say about my life and I don't want anyone who attends Community Christian to have to say. 

The writer is talking about the danger of pursuing "comfort" in our culture.  That it isn't really the bad things it leads us to do but the good things it leads us to avoid.  Look at this

To sinful patterns of behavior that never get confronted and changed,

Abilities and gifts that never get cultivated and deployed-

Until weeks become months

And months turn into years,

And one day you’re looking back on a life of

Deep intimate gut-wrenchingly honest conversations you never had;

Great bold prayers you never prayed,

Exhilarating risk you never took,

Sacrificial gifts you never offered,

Lives you never touched,

And you’re sitting in comfort a shriveled soul,

And forgotten dreams,

And you realize there was a world in desperate need, And a great God calling you to be part of something bigger than yourself-

You see the person you could have become but did not; You never followed your calling.

Let's make a pledge to not have that be true of us.