Complacency

Woe to you who are complacent ~ Amos 6:1

Don’t you just love people who are full of themselves? They have an arrogant way about them, one that seems to allow them the belief that we commoners, we sheep,  just grazed around them as they carry on the important aspects of their day. 

Smugness wears ugly ...don’t you think. I mean we don’t wear it as a compliment. We don’t greet a great man or woman with ...my, you really look smug today ...I love that jacket, you look really smug in it ...or maybe, you know, you wear smugness well!

The self-important quality rests on an innate security that they have, even when based on a faulty premise. In Amos 6, God tells Israel that their security is false. 

It’s truly amazing just how many examples over so many years, that we’ve seen or read, about the same arrogance revealing itself. Human kind just can’t get over itself. 

The ideal of physical power has always been at the forefront of disagreement, battle, and death. 

The Israelites saw judgement as very far away, much like children and young adults. There’s always a false comfort in putting off what we don’t want to face until tomorrow or some time in the distant future.

Let’s agree to rest on these on two things -
1. God is universally in control ...not us, ...ever!
2. Today, tomorrow and everyday after, are judgement days for someone, somewhere

Pray on...

Song: I Don’t Know (Album: Stars Under My Feet)