Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.

In the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Patrick Miller.

Right now we're going through the first book of the Bible, Genesis.

What will people say at your funeral? It's funny because if you're anything like me

you don't think about that question very often and yet that probably explains why in my day-to-day life I spend most of my time

fixated on my own personal comfort. I might not be able to control the big things in my life, but at the very least I can minimize my own discomfort.

Now, I know I'm not alone. Our entire culture has an aversion to suffering. When it happens we feel confused by it. We get

angry at God, angry at the government, angry at the health care system, angry at

the boss, angry at the roommate, angry at our spouse. It's almost as though discomfort and suffering are foreign agents

that we don't expect in the country of our life. They just don't belong here and because we

don't expect them, we get angry at them.

But of course the reality is, we should expect discomfort.

We should expect suffering.

When things make you uncomfortable or cause you suffering, how do you respond?

How much of your wife is about controlling your schedule or the people around you or your

job or your finances or your classmates or whatever it is so that you can personally feel comfortable.

It's kind of depressing to think about your funeral if that's how you live your life, isn't it?

Above your gravestone, it's going to be written, here lies

Patrick in my case who lived a comfortable life. If you had to choose between

living a comfortable life, which again is what we spend most of our time worrying about because we don't want to suffer, we don't want discomfort, but if you had to choose between living a comfortable life and living a meaningful life, which one would you choose?

Well, of course, mentally everybody's going to say a meaningful life,

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