engage

I think complacency is a horrible trap. It's a horrible one to fall into. We know time never stops, but we certainly have stages in our lives. Our lives are quite steady in these time periods in terms of what we do. Our routine is generally the same. High school is a routine, college, one job, the next, etc. Each of these stages is the succession of days usually doing the same thing or similar things repeatedly. Gosh that sounds super boring. But I think there is a deeper meaning to be sought. Our culture wants the fast, the exciting, the new, the flashy, shocking, the loud. Deep down, though, we know we can never be satisfied with this. We desire more. We desire depth. Thus, the stages we have in our life shouldn't be seen as a numb repetition of the monotonous, but a chance to enter deeply into whatever section of our lives we wake up to be in.


Oh, but how it easy it is to enter a rut. It's not too difficult to become numb to what we are doing and desensitized to it all. We lose sight of the end and live the present for the sake of the present. We become complacent and don't seek more. We are satisfied for now, and we stop. We cease looking for more. However, there is always more. There is always a calling to love deeper, care more selflessly, and laugh more freely. I think we should have a burning intensity for the present, for this is where we are, right now. Stop. Pause the music. Look around.  This is what has been given to you at this current moment. It's up to you to live life until it's bursting at the seams. Invest yourself in your relationships, pray fervently, and enjoy this life God has given you. 


So maybe you're blazing down the road at 80 mph in a corvette in 6th gear pumped and ready to rock. Wonderful. Give God the glory. But if you're going about 45 in neutral with your foot off the gas and hands in your lap, engage. Grip the wheel, step on the pedal, and put it in drive. Live and love with intensity and vigor. It's certainly tough, but you're not called to complacency. You are called to greatness. So wake up and pray for strength.