Is Comfort Your King? Looking to Jesus in Hardship

When life throws you a curveball, what's your first instinct? Is it to brace for impact, or is it to immediately look for the escape hatch, the easiest way out? That pull towards comfort, towards avoiding anything hard or painful – it's powerful, isn't it? Almost automatic. But what if that constant drive for ease is actually keeping us from experiencing something far deeper, something truly satisfying?