Lukewarm

I wanted to share with you a revelation that Eva and I had some 5 years ago.  We were at a "crossroad" in our walk with Christ.  We wanted more of Him, we wanted to be closer to Him, we wanted His wisdom, discernment and more of His Spirit and presence.  Being so thirsty for Him we read a book called "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan, I am sure some of you know about this awesome man of God and this book that transformed our lives forever.

As we read this book together we came across chapter 4 of his book titled "Profile of the lukewarm".  Lukewarm, a word that many of us do not like to hear.  A word that many of us love to point the finger at someone else and would hardly take inventory of ourselves to see if in fact we are lukewarm.  This was the hardest chapter for us to read in this book and contemplated should we skip over this chapter or not.  Although the struggle was there we knew that we had to read this chapter.  If what we seek from God was to be closer to Him as we have prayed for than this was essential, unmeasurable and vital to our growth in Him.  There were a lot of ouch moments in this chapter but I can tell you that it completely changed me, us!!!

In Rev. 3:16 says: "So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth."  Imagine this the the Lord of creation, who is slow to anger, long suffering, loving, merciful, kind, just, righteous and HOLY that He would say that He would spit you out of His mouth.  That the taste that you have in His mouth is so disgusting, that He does not want any part of it or even would want to change that bitterness to something sweet. That the Lord of all creation would spit you out of His mouth.  Today we are embracing lukewarmness.  We have compromised what we believe, we have conformed to the world due to lack of knowledge and revelation that comes from being in God's Word and we are complacent, meaning that we have turned a blind eye and a deaf ear to what which we know is wrong according to the Word of God.  We are so worried about offending people that we fail to realize that the Bible is offensive and it will be offensive due to the fact that it exposes our sin and shows us how desperate we are in need of a SAVIOR.  Body of Christ, whatever you do, do not become lukewarm.  Ask God, as we did, to purge you and reveal to you where lukewarmness is lingering.  God is coming back for a church without spot or wrinkle but a lukewarm church He will have no part of.  Let that not be our judgment......