"...the complacency of fools will destroy them..."

Continuing to read Proverbs 1:29-33
"...the complacency of fools will destroy them..."

Complacency: the Black Hole of the spirit. How many hopes, dreams, and ambitions have been swallowed up and crushed into invisibility by its powerful gravity. The most dangerous aspect of it is that complacency is not an unpleasant experience, quite the contrary. I have read that if you are caught out in freezing conditions without adequate protection you will pass through a period of pain and extreme cold to a place where you begin to feel warm and sleepy and all you want to do is sit down and rest for a while. Complacency at this point is certain death. It is at this point that you have to make every effort to rouse yourself.

In my complacency I may no longer get the connection between the match (which is fun to play with) and the fire (which burns down the house). The "fool" in the Bible is not a low functioning or mentally challenged person. The fool is the one who fails to acknowledge God, who fails to connect act with consequence, who looks to his own self for the moral compass in life. The fool is the person who builds a city but has no walls or boundaries to protect it.

No matter where you are at in your spiritual journey or how hard it has been: Don't sit down now. Rouse yourself. "Wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you" (Ephesians 5:14). This verse is followed by "be very careful, then, how you live." I may feel comfortable in a very lost condition but it doesn't mean that I am safe.

What will I do today to get on with my journey?