"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm - neither cold nor hot - I am about to spit you out of my mouth."
Revelation 3: 15 & 16
These verses are the words of Jesus spoken to the church of Laodicea, but they serve as an apt warning to anyone with a lukewarm heart.
Lukewarm believers sit on the fence, happy to watch the world go by. Don't get too "preachy" with them, or they bristle.
I heard about a baptist church in England whose sign bearing flames warned the passerby, "If you think there is no God, you'd better be right!" That's a smoking hot attention-grabber this world needs, but some offended person complained to the authorities. The church was charged with a hate crime and ordered their sign be changed to read "God Loves You," a nice lukewarm, non-offensive statement.
Jesus, who knows our deeds, demands more of us. He abhors lukewarm; he spits it out! What example did he give us? Remember how hot under the collar he got with the moneychangers in the temple? Or when he called the Pharisees hypocrites, blind guides and whitewashed tombs? They got so ruffled, they wanted to kill him!
Good! There is a refiner's fire that tests our mettle. Get involved. Get fired up. Don't let your heart grow cold in these last days, but let it burn for more. Turn up the burner.
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