The Danger of a Complacent Heart

Spiritual complacency brings us to a place of numbness.

I’m sure you’ve felt it before: you’re physically present but emotionally elsewhere

For me,it started with my spiritual life;

Feeling an urge to read the Bible, but choosing to watch TikTok videos instead. Sitting in Sunday service but feeling ready to leave.

As the complacency in my spiritual life crept in, a numbness towards life began to follow;

I'd be sitting in my favorite coffee shop, drinking the best coffee, and listening to a video on business management: all things I would typically enjoy but this time it felt different. I couldn’t remain focused and eventually just went home.

I noticed that same disengagement when holding conversations among family and friends

A few weeks had passed but I didn’t seem to mind the increased levels of disengagement too much, I blew the feelings off my shoulder and continued on. Until last night when the Holy Spirit stopped me in my tracks

I quickly fell on my knees and cried out to God, pain, and tears left my eyes and I suddenly realized why…

spiritual contentment created a cold distance in my heart. I began to cry out to God: something I honestly haven’t done in a few months.

As I poured my heart out to God, the patterns of spiritual complacency began breaking, I opened my Bible and began reading about the dangers of a complacent heart:

in Isaiah 32:9-20 there’s a direct warning to the women of Jerusalem who had grown complacent In their faith, living in the false security of an earthly lifestyle

& we see this warning again in proverbs 1:33

"the complacency of fools will destroy them"

As an online blog said it best, “faith DEMANDS response”.

For weeks my heart grew cold, but one response of faith mended the distance I created with God.

If Christ truly is the center of our hearts, complacency in towards Him will affect our passion in other areas of our lives.

So if that’s you today, I pray you respond in your faith. Whether that means you have to crawl out of bed and fall to your knees in tears or open the Bible that’s been sitting on an empty desk. Push through the thoughts of complacency buried deep in your mind and get personal with Christ.

We must be cautious of complacency creeping into our spiritual lives. As we walk with Christ, our hearts should always desire a deeper relationship with Him.