Complacency = Content.........

Complacency = Content. To be content is unacceptable to God!

When we are content with: Our Surroundings, Our Walk, Our Church, Our Life Outside of the Church, WE DO NOT WORK OUR BEST FOR GOD!  WE should NEVER settle for Second Best, When God wants us to HAVE THE BEST!

Our life is a gift given to us from the our Heavenly Father. In this life, It IS NOT about us at all. It is about HIM All the way. Our decisions should be carefully made and not made to satisfy Our Needs or Our Wants! 

It bothers me when I hear someone say, I am going to do this or that because it will make me happier then I am now about this or that. I dont mean this the way it will come across, but WHO CARES if you are happy or not! We should learn to be pleased and greatful about our situation, then be happy about it. We have to learn to accept what we have before us, good or bad. Accept what we have and where we are before we can get all the HAPPY Desires we seek to have. When we accept our situation or where God has us and learn what it is God is trying to teach us, Then we can move on. Sometimes it takes us years before we even get that!

My question to those are this: Did you ever wonder about your situation and why you may be there in the first place? Did you ever think that maybe God has you where you are for a reason? It is not always about you or me. I have to admit once I was there, but over the years and really digging after God I have learned to try look at the circumstance a little different and not from my eye view but try looking at it from Gods eye view. NO, it is not always easy.  I have to say over these last 5 years, I am really getting tired of the whiney christian complaining about - Where they are and Why are they there, or Why Me? Then I hear others say, I am not happy because of this or that, so I will go back to the moment where I was before I was in this circumstance. Do you really think going backwards is going to make things better?  Obviously NOT, things will only get better when we move forward accepting what is being dealt to us and press through our circumstances. One would say to be Content is to be lukewarm. [Revelations 3: 14-22] You decide...

Dive in a moment with me as I explain.  I am not on a rant, really, I am just so tired of hearing people whine about their wants, and not really seeing the bigger picture. I realize not everyone has been on a learning growth like myself and my family. I know everyone is growing and in different levels. But much of a crowd of people I know appear to be growing backwards in a sense I guess you could say. I mean,  Heck if we really want to get griddy, I want a new house for my family that has enough room for all of us and some land for my kids to play on! I want to be debt free with all or finances paid off - We are getting there but it is not over night! I want out of this city and into the country, I want a life with no stress in it! I want..... I want..... I want.... It doesnt really matter what I want. We have to earn our wants by doing our part in order to get the things in life we want. Dont we understand our life is not about us at all!  When we do for God what he aks us to do, We are faithful to him, HE WILL GIVE BACK IN RETURN. Where we are is for a purpose? Not because he wants us there, not becuase we are being punished. We are there to learn and share what we have learned to help others grow strong to and build a foundation IN HIM and share HIM with others.

For instance, God lead us from our home church to an other and it was hard. But I was relieved to have the stress from our old church off of my back. I knew it was temporal as later on the Lord would call us back to our home church again Temporal. It was the hardest thing in the world to do to go back to a messy situation that still was being worked on at our old church. We were just getting settled in our new church, we had been there for 3 years and now we had to leave to go back to an atmosphere of caos and an unsettled foundation within in our old church. Why did we have to go back? Trust me, I whined on that! It didnt take me long to figure out I had to learn to submit to a pastor that honestly, had much to learn. Heck we all have much to learn!

For the most part, there was a lot of disagreements on his belief, his leading or handling of others, the contradictions, critisims, some deception and so much more. Learning to submit even when you dont agree on everything, that is really hard. Why? I will tell you why, HE WAS THE PASTOR IN CHARGE! The flock leader of that church and whether I [and WE], liked it or not, I had to learn to submit. When things were not right and there was an inconsistancy in Gods Truth vs Mans Word when the Lord released me to speak up I did speak up and when I was not released to speak, I had to learn to keep my mouth shut. OUCH! There were other things that many churches experience. GOSSIPING CROWDS!

The Lord wanted me to stand clear of all the talk. Instead of joining in on the Gossip, [Who can resist badgering one that is disturbingly aggravating to you - I did it though and I am proud of myself for doing it! Dont act like your innocent because at some point everyone has fell into the realms of gossiping.]  I stood firm on what was TRUTH and if it was wrong I spoke up and made it clear to ones around me that it was wrong and what the bible said about it. Some accepted it and moved on, others bit back or walked off never to conversate again. It didnt matter to me if I had friends or not after that.
Truth is, I am not living for my friends, I am living for Christ and what I believe. What is wrong is wrong as what is right is right. BUT TIMING is everything. Learning when Gods timing is the most important thing to know. Some could sit and tare this man up behind his back, and if I wanted to I could join in on the ripping of this man or I could stand up and speak up - not in his defense but clearly in Gods eyes, Maybe God was actually trying to work on this problem or that and it was going unnoticed. So yes, I learned to not defend the man, but speak up that it acutally may not be all Him, Maybe God was trying to do something through him or through the situation[s]. Kinda of confusing huh! In other words, It may of seemed like I was defending this pastor but really I was defending what God may be doing through him or what he may be trying to teach him.Things DO Happen for a purpose! We just have to learn to see these things through GOD's Eyes

Now, understand me, all of this is not put off on the new pastor as there were others within our old church that had just as much of a responibility in these problems, But I will openly admit a great deal was him. I can not think of one person that did not butt-heads with this man. EVEN ME! I think I was maybe the 5th in line to do the head butting. I am honestly not proud of that either. I think circumstances with all of us [including him] got overly hot and escalated out of control leading us to some of the results we got. I will admit that. Over the last 5+ years now since all of this happened, back at our new church God took my family and I through a major time of fasting and growing in HIM. Learning to see God in a clearer view and learning to listen to Gods voice. Now it is not always easy and we are not perfect but we did at least learn a lot about the past situations inolving our old church and our new journey we were facing and continue to face. For myself, I learned to love and respect this pastor, like God called me to and that was a huge accomplishment for me. I did not go back to this church because I missed my friends or old church family. Of course I do, But my walk is not about them. I truthfully can not let my feelings for them hinder my call from God.  I certainly didnt go back to prove a point or do anything other THEN What God Called me and my family back to do. I gained and lost friends and I am not so sad about that really. Friends will come and go all through out my life. I can not be content in my life being afraid of what new things may come my way or what new directions God is calling me and my family in.  I love all of them very much and I do miss them very much. But I learned to appreciate what I had with them once and accepted that God has plans for my family and I in a different place. If we went back now we are bound to fall in some sort of content mode and we would not move in the direction we are being lead to.  What does all of this have to do with this post? MUCH!

I could of stayed content with the situation not doing anything about the problem[s], When God gave us the tools we needed to do something about the problem[s] or I could of used His tools to make the situation better. Which I learned to do just that. Use HIS TOOLs!

When we complain about situations, How we feel, What we want and Why are we not getting it fulfilled and more, WE ARE NOT GETTING A CLEARER VIEW OF THE BIGGER PICTURE, or WHAT GOD WANTS FOR US! We dont want to see through his eyes! We want to see through our eyes because we think we know what is best for us. We base that on what we see, [losing our faith] How we feel in general and about the circumstances. Thus leading to forget Gods Word!


God has a plan for all of us [Jeremiah 29:11], A job for each of us to accomplish. [1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12: 6 - a misdst other scrips in bible], We cannot get our jobs done sitting in a content mode allowing ALL the wrongs to walk forth in no correction. Standing up for Christ IS a part of: Our Job, Our Learning and Our Growth. There is NO GREATER TRUTH THEN CHRIST.

It bothers me to see Christians today, Sit in content with their surroundings while complaining or whining about what is going on. The truth is, WE HAVE THE POWER TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.  Gods Word tells us all we need to live daily. When we face things like this we are not to sit in content or Complacency.  [Look all around us today in this world. What has Complacency gotten us? Absolutely NOTHING! In fact the only thing it did bring is trouble for the Christian believer. Look at our Constitutional Rights and how many of them are under attack or have been violated. What have we done about it? NOTHING. Some are fighting and trying to do something about it, but for the most part others just sit in Complacency.] 

Complacency = Content. To be content is unacceptable to God!

Where are you today?