COMPLACENCY

4/27/11 Back in the closet again…..or our safe place as bow-tie weatherman, Joey Sulipek, was calling it. Friend Elaine M. said that our weather had “put down the pruning shears and picked up the chain saw.” Predictions were certainly dire.

Cozy (a euphemism for stuffy & cramped) in our under the stairs closet, the simulcast of the weather news was playing on our battery operated radio as the sirens wailed outside. It didn’t take long to grow weary of obeying the siren’s warning to take cover and do the right thing. Before too long we were inching out toward more comfort. The sirens came and went for more that 2 hours. We came and went as well, even while the sirens continued.

How easy it became to half-heartedly heed the warning. Isn’t that the way it can be in our Christian walk? We can easily slip into complacency---even when doing the right thing. Laziness and indifference can become the pattern. How do we avoid this danger?

“And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed…..So, let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light.” ― Romans 13:11-12 (NIV)

Complacency is a real and present danger. We need to guard against it by covering ourselves with the light of God’s word that we might not be caught unaware by the ever present dangers of this world.

“For the waywardness of the naïve shall kill them, and the complacency of fools shall destroy them.” (Proverbs 1:32)