“You Just Haven’t Made It Official Yet…"

Complacency is “a feeling of being satisfied with how things are and not wanting to try to make them better.” http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complacency

John Maxwell, author and speaker primarily in the area of leadership explained this in his daily “A Minute with Maxwell” video:

“I think complacent is an attitude. When we become comfortable with who we are, what we are and what we are doing, we basically say ‘this and no more.’ I think it’s not because we don’t have potential to grow and develop and expand. It’s because we chose to stop expanding. Now, what happens when we become complacent?  That’s the day we start to die.  It may not affect us physically, for awhile. But people with no goals …no far horizons to strive for… nothing to get up in the morning and do something that is of no significant value to themselves or others…people who become complacent…. They first die inwardly. This is the worst kind of death. The worst kind of cancer is not one that eats the body. The worst kind of cancer is complacency. The kind when a person basically says, ‘I’m done.’ We all know people who are already dead. They just haven’t made it official yet. Complacency will do that to you.” http://johnmaxwellteam.com/2015-complacent?i=5gI

Although we are exactly where the Lord wants us to be right now, He has no intention of us staying there. We must strive daily to study the word and become more like Him.

The Bible says:

Revelation 3:15-17 (NKJV):  15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, ‘I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing’—and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked—

Proverbs 1:32 (NKJV):  32 For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them;

Memorable Quotes:        

“Don’t lose sight of the future God has for you because you want to be comfortable right now.”  - John Hagee

 “Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life,” – Pope Francis

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”

“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.”

"The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives." - Francis Chan

“If it doesn’t challenge you, it doesn’t change you.”

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then, I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

While you are here on this time side of life, don’t get complacent in any aspect of your life. Don’t be dead, while still living…