‘Now then, listen, you lover of pleasure,
    lounging in your security
and saying to yourself,
    “I am, and there is none besides me.
I will never be a widow
    or suffer the loss of children.”
9 Both of these will overtake you
    in a moment, on a single day:
    loss of children and widowhood.
They will come upon you in full measure…

“Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.” Aiden Wilson Tozer.

“We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behaviour.” John Stott.

We have already considered the complacency of Babylon, and we should note the spiritual danger of such an attitude.

In Revelation 3:17 Jesus says to a complacent church:

 You say, “I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.” But you do not realise that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 

‘No doubt the congregation of Laodicea teemed with self-satisfied churchgoers…The pride of Laodicea was infectious. Christians caught the plague. The spirit of complacency crept into the church and tainted it. Church members became smug and self-satisfied, and Jesus Christ needed to be blunt in exposing them.’ John Stott: ‘What Christ thinks of the church’, pp.117,118.

Complacency is self-deluding and leads to disaster if not checked.

PRAYER: Holy Spirit I ask you to search my heart. See if there should be any wicked way in me. Point it out; reveal it. Help me to turn away from it. Rid me of all complacency