The Danger Zone!

Thursday 28^th June 2007

 

S.

Amos 2:10 It was I who rescued you form Egypt and led you through the desert for forty years so you could possess the land of the Amorites.

 

O.

These people had all become complacent in their relationship with God. This is one of the number one dangerous enemies to God’s people. As soon as they found ease creeping into their lives, they began to rely on themselves and didn’t give God the time of day! This made it easy for them to turn their backs on God and forget where they’d come from and who it was who had gotten them to the position of victory that they now enjoyed. Unfortunately the trap of comfort caused them to have no need for reliance on the God who’d saved and delivered them. Life was good, so God needed to remind them that if it wasn’t’ for Him, they would have still been slaves to another land. Without God they wouldn’t have made it out of the wilderness and they wouldn’t have had the land they now possessed. So God had no choice but to bring them back to dependence on Him. They could have chosen to depend on Him daily but instead they would be forced into depending on Him due to their desperate circumstances that God would bring about but only because He wanted them to be in relationship with and rely on Him.

 

A.

Being comfortable can cause complacency and therefore is a very real danger to me today! While life is stable and cruizy I have no real urgency or need to press in to God. But I need to have the attitude of the apostle Paul who in 2 Timothy 2:4(our reading from Tuesday) says,” As Christ’s soldier, do not let yourself become tied up in the affairs of this life, for then you cannot satisfy the one who has enlisted you in his army.” If I continually press into God with everything I have every day of my life, I should be saved from the danger of complacency.

 

P.

Lord, you know the weakness and limitations of my humanity and how that can cause me to lose focus on you. I thank you that your love for me and your empowering grace in my life will keep me alive and passionately pursuing you. Please help me to never exchange you for comfort in my life.

 

Tracey Bence