Complacency

Complacency

The alarm clock sounded typically obnoxious at six o'clock this morning. Following one (or three) too many usages of the snooze button, I dragged myself out of my nice cozy bed to begin the daily ritual. It has started routine enough. My youngest son, Judah, (who is six going on twenty) completed his morning tasks with relatively little fuss. Everything was executed in the manner in which he requires. I may say that 'tongue-in-cheek', but he really is the most particular of all of my children. Everything has an order and must be completed as such. Any deviation in this order could lead to a meltdown. I am writing this now with several breaks to shake the sleeping body of my twelve year old son, Jeremiah. He has no order with which things are to be done. He lives his life on the edge and without some coaxing; the morning ritual for him may never even get started. I am back now from another bout of motivating Jeremiah from his coma. Today is much like any other day for me. Nothing really earth-shattering has occurred. I guess I am complacent.

Then I realize complacent is a horrible state-of-mind!

I open my blackberry phone to get the recent status updates on Facebook. One Pastor friend writes a challenge to motivate followers to 'bring people to Christ'. He further warns that time is a limited commodity. A young lady speaks of work and then a college class later. Some speak of plans of fun. Updates are posted for those who have high scores in cyber-farming and fishing, still others remind us of birthdays and appointments. All seems very routine today....!!

Why does that upset me so??????????????????????????????????????

I sit here in my comfortable chair, in front of my personal computer, in my home office, in my warm house, in my safe community, in my prosperous county, in a growing state, in a free country! I am complacent! This is until I take the time to open my Twitter updates. I pick up my phone and press the Twitter icon on the screen. I read of still other comfortable people...music artists are promoting concerts and events. Promotions of websites and blog pages fill the screen.

Then I see the most recent page that I chose to follow. A Charlotte Observer newspaper journalist has followed a local physician to Haiti. The doctor has a private practice in Matthews, NC. After learning of the earthquake tragedy in Haiti over the last week and seeing the devastation on the news, the doctor closed his practice and arranged a flight and ground transport to Haiti. No official plan after that. He was just going and was prepared to be used! At first I thought it would be interesting to following a first-hand account.

This firsthand account of the doctor's encounters at first spurred my interest. It has since spurred my passion!

Dr. Myles Munroe says that the enemy of success is not failure. It is satisfaction. When we are satisfied with our accomplishments we fail to press forward for more. We sit! We bask in what we have achieved.

Potential is an energy that is ever waiting to be released. It is the God part of mankind! It allows us to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to the earth. When I tap into the energy of my Godly potential I will never be complacent!

Today I am aware of my stagnant state. I choose not to sit here doing nothing! I will tap into that energy......The power that was given in Acts 1:8 KJV, to be witnesses of Christ to the whole earth. It may just start in my community. It may just start in my city. But it will start!