So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. (Revelation 3:16)
In the summertime in Florida, the weather can be bit of a sauna! Taking a shower in hot water is always great for me but, I tend to ad a zest of cold water before I come out! How refreshing it is. I also enjoy jumping into the cool ocean up north in the scorching heat of the summer! Seems very COLD then it wakes up all my cells and my body seems to cry out how great thou art!
I have read about others who slip into a hot sauna and then run out into the freezing cold and roll in the snow! WOW, a bit much? It is said that the purpose for this practice is to get their blood moving! You can say that again. I also find it enjoyable to rest in a tub of lukewarm water. I find that relaxing. But, going from sweltering "hot" to freezing "cold" is just too much for me!
The words to the Laodiceans in Revelation 3:16 remind me of the Hot Springs here in Florida. They are said to be very therapeutic; even improving one's health. Once one experience these springs they submerge themselves in cold refreshing water. Laocdicea had waters that were neither hot nor cold; therefore the waters were rather dead and pungent to the smell.
I believe the Lord used the condition of their water to express how their spiritual condition was. "Because you have become so dead, dull, sickening and nauseating — because no spiritually refreshing waters flow from you and you have no healing properties left — I will spue thee out of My mouth!" Spue is a word to mean almost to the point of vomiting—gagging and spitting them out of His mouth!
It reveals how utterly distasteful a spiritually lukewarm condition is to Jesus. The fact that these believers were lukewarm means they were not good for anything. They were neither cool and refreshing, nor were they hot and healing. They were just stuck in the middle, like something that has lost both its flavor and its heat along the way.
It is very evident how God feels about a lukewarm spiritual walk. You see, with God there is no middle ground. But if you have allowed your walk with God to become lukewarm, you can reverse that unpalatable—abominable condition! God has tossed the ball into our court, and now it is up to us. He is calling us to repent of our lukewarm attitude. Go after the things of God with all your heart, soul, and strength!
If we are not growing we are stagnant! If we are stagnant we are going to be spued out of God's mouth!
Let us pray for a refreshing so that as God tastes us it is a burst of mint exploding on His pallet!
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