COMPLACENCY;
SPIRITUAL GROWTH; LONGING FOR GOD

The complacency of Christians is the scandal of Christianity.…

These Christians know, and when pressed will admit, that their finite hearts have explored but a pitifully small part of the infinite riches that are theirs in Christ Jesus. They read the lives of the great saints whose fervent desire after God carried them far up the mountain toward spiritual perfection; and for a brief moment they may yearn to be like these fiery souls whose light and fragrance still linger in the world where they once lived and labored. But the longing soon passes. The world is too much with them and the claims of their earthly lives are too insistent; so they settle back to live their ordinary lives, and accept the customary as normal. After a while they manage to achieve some kind of inner content and that is the last we hear of them.

Romans 9:23–24; Ephesians 1:12–14; Hebrews 3:12–13

Man the Dwelling Place of God, 36, 37.