This article is an excerpt from Unburdened by Vance Pitman
Freedom from spiritual complacency Based on recent studies, people in today’s world spend more time sitting down than pretty much any other generation in human history. And it’s killing us. One study demonstrated that the more time we spend sitting each day, the higher the chance we’ll die an early death. According to those same studies, the best way to protect ourselves from the dangers of sitting is to get up and move. By Vance Pitman
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All the while, the call of God is for us to actively join in what He’s doing both locally and globally.
rom a spiritual standpoint, spending our lives in idleness as it relates to the
The burden of complacency
mission of God is a harmful, deathlike
blow to our joy, satisfaction and usefulness as fol-
Whenever we attempt to live the Christian life
lowers of Jesus. Specifically, for Jesus followers in
in our own strength rather than live out of the
America, there’s a dangerous potential of limiting
overflow of our relationship with God, we face a
or even missing God’s invitation to join in His work
dangerous, sinful drift to prioritizing our needs,
around us—and ultimately His impact through
our plans, and our comforts over the needs of
us—because we’re too comfortable, too apa-
those around us. That’s what comes naturally to us
thetic and too unwilling to share in His mission.
in our own strength. But that isn’t who Jesus is.
Far too often, if we’re not intentionally pursuing Jesus, we find ourselves in a posture of spiritual
Notice Jesus’ message to the church at Laodicea
complacency rather than missional urgency.
in Revelation 3:
