Complacency- Sunday Prepper Bible Study- Proverbs 1:32
Complacency- Sunday Prepper Bible Study
Proverbs 1:32 “For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them”
Complacency is defined as a feeling of contentment or self-satisfaction, especially when coupled with an unawareness of danger, trouble, or controversy. After reading this definition, we can see how deadly complacency can be. We live in a culture that is steeped in complacency and God’s Word has already predicted how that will turn out.
As preppers, we must guard against complacency. We must ever be vigilant and on the watch. After several years of prepping, it is tempting to begin to doubt the necessity of continuing to build your preps. Sometimes we can think that the masses might be right. Maybe nothing will happen and everything will go on as it has. This thought actually has a more technical name. It is called Normalcy Bias. Normalcy Bias is what causes people to believe that something won’t happen to them, because it hasn’t happened to them before. It is a fancy word for complacency. Even though our government is running trillion dollar deficits every year, people believe that the dollar is solid because they have never witnessed a currency collapse before. There are swarms of professionals sounding the alarm about the impending crisis but the general public chooses to stick their heads in the sand.
Many people, myself included, have been astonished by the ability of the Treasury and the Fed to keep up the current level of borrowing and spending with out serious economic consequences. The BLS has co-conspired to keep us believing, against all common sense, that inflation rates are low. Despite their manipulation of the numbers, we can see how much more we are paying at the grocery store. Even products that have not risen in price have lost volume, there by raising the cost per unit.
Several people like Porter Stansbury have made predictions of the timing of the collapse. In his End Of America videos, he predicted the crash in 2011, then 2012. His latest video now simply states it will be in the next 12 months. Most of the things he says in the video is true. It is a very good synopsis of what is wrong. However, when listening to people who try to time the coming crisis, it is easy to make mistakes. If you became a sold out true believer of Porter in 2011, you are now on your 3rd year of living in your bunker and are probably running out of supplies. Some of those dedicated followers may also be leery of prepping at all. Despite the fact that economic instability is at an all time high some of these people have returned to complacency.Because they feel like they were made a fool of, they have now become complacent about the true state of our economy.
Continue to be watchful and prayerful. Keep prepping. Do what you can when you can to keep building a better foundation of readiness. Pray that God will help you make the right decisions to best position yourself for what ever the future may bring. If you are new to prepping, check out our 7 Step Preparedness Plan. It focuses on preparing on a budget and being ready for every possibility.
The most important prep of all is knowing GOD. In the Bible, Jesus said “what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world yet loses his own soul?” Prepper translation: “What good will it do you to survive the coming economic collapse, nuclear war or even a zombie apocalypse if you don’t know you will go to heaven when you die?” A recent study found that 10 out of 10 people die! On that day we will meet our Maker. It only makes sense to be prepared for that day. Click here to learn more about knowing GOD.
Happy Prepping!
