Complacency

I was talking to K, the little kid I wrote about in this post. And I was asking him to explain something to me. He began throwing out a bunch of "churchisms" hoping that I would be satisfied with the answer. And actually, that made me kind of sad. It made me sad to see how quickly kids (and us adults likewise) try to find an easy answer that maybe they don't even quite understand themselves. It made me sad because I see his enthusiasm for knowing God diminishing with each passing week, and there is only so much that I can do. It made me sad because I know that this reaction is something that is true in so many of us. 

Isn't that why we were warned against losing our saltiness? Because it's something that's so easy for us to slip into if we're not constantly on our guard. It's so easy to just take our relationship with God for granted. This year, will you join me in being on guard against being complacent? Will you join me in passionately following God and in obeying Him wherever He leads? And will you join me in praying for all the children out there, that they would realize how precious a gift they've been given?

You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. 

Matthew 5:13