Complacency

com·pla·cen·cy

kəmˈplāsənsē/

noun

noun: complacency; noun: complacence

1. a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.

   "the figures are better, but there are no grounds for complacency"

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   smugness, self-satisfaction, self-congratulation, self-regard; More gloating, triumph, pride; satisfaction, contentment   Over the past several months, I've felt such a burden for our church and the Christians of this community and this country.  The thing that keeps coming to my mind is "a spirit of complacency".  Our culture and comfort has lulled us to sleep.  It's made us numb to why we are here as believers in Christ.  Technolgy, media, comfort, recreation, our own persuits for money, recognition, pleasure...they have caused us to put Christ in a pot with all of it, just part of it.  He has lost His place as the center of it all. I am at a place of brokeness for the state of the Christian community today.  I am pouring out my own heart to God, to repent of my own complacency.  I want to be different.  I want to be light.  I want Christ to be in and about everything I do.  I want my children to see that too. I'm praying for revival in the churches of America.  Yes, that is an old word.  Sometimes it comes with pictures of pentacostal preachers playing to emotions.  That isn't what I mean. Revival.  A stiring of our hearts back towards the truth of Christ.  A renewal of our commitements to make Him our everything.  A fresh desire to repent of falling in to the lull and seeking Christ for ourselves and for those around us to come to know Him. We so desperately need Jesus.  We don't need anything else.  I'm praying for eyes to be opened and hearts to return to that simple purity of faith.                                                           ..Stacey