Lukewarm!

Revelation 3:15-16 “I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth!”

I spent a year or so as the warehouseman at Electric Supplies Distributing in El Centro, CA. I started in the spring, so everything was okay.

Then the summer hit: everything was definitely no longer okay! 100 degrees or over every day with no air conditioning. It was so hot I could make a local call to hell!

One Friday afternoon I was drinking a nice cold Coke as I finished my shipping. I went into the air conditioned office and stayed there as long as I could.

Monday afternoon I was once again doing my shipping, and again I reached for the nice cold Coke can on the shipping table and took a huge gulp. Except it wasn’t ice cold, it was warm and nasty. After spewing the warm Coke all over the warehouse I realized that the Coke I took a big chug of was from Friday!

Jesus told the church in Laodecia that he knew them and the things they were doing. Instead of being hot or cold they were lukewarm. So, like a Coke that spent all weekend in a baking warehouse, they would be spewed out of his mouth.

God would rather we were 100% for him or 100% against him. This mamby pamby “kind of a Christian, but kind of not” doesn’t work for him. Being a Christian is like pedaling a bike uphill. There is no coasting. If you’re not pedaling, you are slowing down and losing momentum.

So get to pedaling! Read your Bible, pray, follow God’s commands, you’ll be glad you did.

Today’s Readings: Ezekiel 4-7; Revelation 3

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