He is not working to make you comfortable, but to transform you. The uncomfortable places are places of grace, where redeeming love is doing the good work that was promised.
"You guide me with your counsel, O Lord, and afterward you will receive me to glory.” Psalm 73:24
Guidance now, glory later.
Steady grace, and serious gladness—all the way home.
"They call upon me, but I do not answer; they seek me diligently but do not find me. Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.” Proverbs 1:28-29
If we are not calling on the Lord to know him and fear him, we’re not calling on the Lord, but a genie.
"The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call 'ourselves.'"-C.S. Lewis