Don't get complacent

We had some lovely friends round for supper last night who we hadn't seen properly together for a while so there was a bit of catch up. They have been through a hard time with various churches they have been in in recent years and have found somewhere that they feel like they can be themselves.
But what stuck me is how much, once one gets into knowing a congregation one can see the human failings and can so easily dwell on that. These lovely people are now going to a congregation with a youth group of about a dozen, the most they have ever had in any congregation they have been in before, and yet at Bath City church we have a 11-14yrs group of 40plus registered, and about 30 who turn up each week. And the older teens, 15-18yrs there must be about 25plus, who do come at their age out of choice, no longer cajoled by their parents.
Also Mark had just had a brilliant healing of his knee during a time of worship on their church weekend away, but again it struck me how things like that have become almost common place where we are and often people don't get excited enough to get up the front and praise God.
We did get spoiled with all the Fire stuff that came from Lakeland, but actually we had lots of this going on already - a large group of young people, regular healings, respected teachings from our speakers who are international speakers and we take so much of it for granted.
So often we have that tendency especially of seeing the negative rather than the positive, a very British thing. So this has got me thinking that even though God has blessed me with being able to "see" things, and at times very much like the Old Testament prophets I need to be like so many of them, and even though I do get to see the negative side at times I need to hear God and what He says on it.
As Patricia King says on her web link how we need to be like Habakkuk and let God gets us to see the blessings He has even if the situations seem bleak
As Stephen Wood preached in our church on Sunday we need to make sure that we don't give the negative things in our lives power by focusing on them, instead we need to look at what God has done before and what He is going to do.
Please God help me to focus positively on You and where You want me to be for now.