food for thought - no chocolate, donuts, cakes, ice-cream though:(

So I was thinking about lukewarm-ness in terms of our relationship with GOd;

Revelation 3:16 says " so becuase you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am going to spit you out of my mouth. "

I spent a whole 15 minutes reckoning with this idea about lukewarm- ness and what it means when God views lukewarm-ness as a greater sin than being cold. I finally came up with this.

When we are hot (really engaged with God), when He leads us in whatever aspect, we know He is leading us, and so we follow and there, we will see the best results.

When we are cold (really bochap God), we take matters into our own hands and make our own decisions but decisions are still made.

When we are lukewarm, we think we are waiting for God's leading, but because we are not engaged with Him, we don't know he is leading, and we continue waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.. you get the idea.

An example I can think of is the idea of waiting for the right person to come along.

When we are hot, we follow God's leading and we get someone who is perfect for us.

When we are cold, we make our own choices and get someone whom we think is perfect for us, whether he/she is or not, we still have someone.

When we are lukewarm, we appear to be following God's leading and so wait in anticipation for the right one, but because we are lukewarm, we don't know when the right one comes along, so we just wait and wait and wait.. and blame God when no one comes along.

lol.

Just for entertainment's sake. Don't take the above too seriously.

But I think what Revelations 3:16 was talking about is this: Being cold means not being aware of the Lordship of Christ so people who are cold are forgiven. However, lukewarmness seems to imply that someone has already experienced God and His goodness yet falls away from Him. Yawns. I shall read more about this tomorrow. TIme to sleep.
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