Safe Zones

"Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, who has made us sufficient to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit."

2 Corinthians 3:4-6

“For the sake of Christ, then,I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”

2 Corinthians 12:10

As followers of Christ, we often strive to find a “comfortable place”— a safe zone where there are no worries or difficulties. But I have learned that’s not how God works. Life is more than shooting a low golf score or playing a bogey-free round, and that’s what I want you to understand. God is constantly using circumstances in our lives to shape us into the people He wants us to be. I am reminded that “when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10). In golf, we have opportunities to either play it safe and lay up or go for it. There are times when Christ is calling us outside our safe zones and telling us to “go for it.” And when that happens, He promises to be there with us, allowing our confidence to rest on Him and not in ourselves. “Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God” (2 Corinthians 3:4-5).