People are more comfortable being uncomfortable than being comfortable, if they have been uncomfortable for an extended period of time. It's simply an ingrained pattern, and familiarity is more comfortable than novelty. Most people have for so long experienced the gnawing sense of anxiety about all the un-captured and un-clarified "work" of their life, that's what they're used to. Then no matter how clean and in control they get at some point, they will soon let themselves slide, let things mount up again, unprocessed, sufficiently to get them back to the level of stress they are accustomed to.This point seems to offer a spiritual application as well. People are often more uncomfortable with their old sinful life than with the life of Christ, than with the "feeling of freedom," as Allen mentioned. We love our burdens and weights too much to lay them down. We want to keep our old familiar prejudices and hates and habits. Along with the context of Galatians, might not this truth give extra meaning to chap. 5, verse 1, "For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery." Christ has given us freedom. That freedom was meant to be exercised and enjoyed, not stifled by the inner or religious need to prove one's own worth to God. This hopeless effort produces only frustration, but some, who already know only this, prefer it to the freedom of having sins totally forgiven and living in the free obedience to the will of God.
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