Arise! Rise up from the seat of complacency!
Are you sitting in the seat of complacency? It’s time you arise. (Amos 6:1; Isaiah 32:9) It is very unfortunate that complacency is sweeping across the churches and among Christians these days. Bible warns believers against being complacent. 1. Complacency deafens our ears to the voice and calling of God. Matthew 22:5 But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business In this parable, the people had a great and an honorable invitation before them. They were invited by the king for the wedding banquet of his son. The dinner was ready. The oxen and fattened cattle were butchered for them. But the invitees couldn’t understand the greatness of their calling. Their ears were deafened and they were happy to carry on with their own chores in life. The ones who had work in farm went to the farm; the other went to his business. Pathetically, there were others who mistreated the servants who were sent to invite them and they killed the ser...