Revelations 3:15-17
15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. 17 Because
thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of
nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and
poor, and blind, and naked
Do you know why the state of being lukewarm -the state of being neither cold nor hot, is regarded as more disastrous than the state of being either cold or hot?
Let's say if I am in the state of being hot in my spiritual life, the Lord would be very
happy about me and He would reveal His diving purpose in me step by
step as I walk with Him. Of course this is the state of the spirituality
the Lord expects from all of us.
If
I am in the state of being cold towards my spiritual life, God would be
sorry about it. Nevertheless, God can cause my state of being cold to
bring me repentance at some point in life. For example, if I have stopped
seeking God's will in my affairs completely and thus doing things on my
own will, when everything starts to rise against me one after the other,
God can cause me to repent on my
sin of not seeking God completely for His divine revelation. It is this
repentance that brings me back to the fold of the Shepherd and start
everything new.
However, if I take the middle path, the devil can
easily deceive me saying that I am not a loser at any point. Yes, what
the devil says to me is half true because I am neither loser nor winner at any point.
The devil would not show me the fact that I never become the winner,
but just struggling all the time to become the winner. It is something
like a mirage in my life. I always think that I am just about to get victory. This feeling of mine is terrible before God as it distracts me from REPENTANCE.
It is only REPENTANCE that
can bring us to the state of being hot in spiritual life. When we
continue in the sate of being cold for some time, total failure which is
brought about by the state of being cold always drags us to REPENTANCE that finally brings us to the state of being hot in our spiritual life.
Thus the state of being lukewarm becomes terrible for anyone as it hinders them from true REPENTANCE.
The opening scripture says that God would spue those who are lukewarm,
out of His mouth because God has no remedy for these people who operate
in this terrible state.
Therefore, let's become hot in our
spiritual life all the time, for which state every one of us has been
called. If not let's become cold rather than becoming lukewarm as there
would a hope even for those who are cold.
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