Proverb 1:32

“For the simple are killed by their turning away,
and the complacency of fools destroys them.”

Isn’t it common sense not to turn your back on danger, the enemy? But what happens is we get used to a constant air of danger and become complacent to the threat being posed.

Case in point: tornadoes in the Midwest. Two days ago, a horrific tornado swept through Moore, OK, demolishing entire neighborhoods. In an area where tornado warnings are the norm this time of year, it can become our nature to discount the warnings. 

One story in particular, recounts a mother’s intuition, whose gut told her to pick up her child from the elementary school that received some of the worst damage from the storm. Moments after retrieving her daughter, the twister spun through the campus, taking many young lives along with it.

What if she had ignored the intuitive urge to pick her daughter up from school? Or written off the storm warnings with statements like these:

“The school knows which precautions to take during a storm.”

“I’ve seem them like this before.”

They come from a place of complacency and could have cost her her daughter’s life. But she was wise in heeding the internal voice. The thing is, we need to learn to always be aware, alert and on guard, listening to our inner conscious. Not fearful, but alert. “For the simple are killed by their turning away and the complacency of fools destroys them.”

Where do you see yourself becoming complacent? What things have you turned your back on? Beware, for these are precise areas of danger. And if we act foolishly (ignoring signs and becoming complacent in our groove of selfishness, laziness, lustfullness, ect.) we can be destroyed by them.