Day 52

 

Tossing Cookies # 2

 

So, because you are lukewarm - neither hot or cold - I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

 

Revelation 3:16

 

 

When I started dating after my first wife died I was looking for someone not just for me but for my 3 year old son as well. I had to make sure that a person was not only up to the task of being my wife (which is a difficult job in itself) but also up to the task of being a mother. All women were not up to that task.

One young lady was very nice and we hit it off well enough. Then on Ethan's third birthday I had some friends over and she brought Ethan a baseball bat that was sized for an 8 year old and a big floor puzzle that I had difficulty putting together. She clearly didn't know a lot about kids (but I guess to be fair I suppose she could have learned).

Jo and I had started dating and she came over to the house to spend the afternoon. We had a supper of hot dogs and macaroni and cheese (okay, so I'm not a gourmet chef) and we played with Ethan until time to put him to bed. He wasn't in bed long before I heard him in his room calling for me. I rushed in to find that he was sick and had thrown up in his bed. Jo came in and offered to help clean up but I told her, "No, that's not your job. He's my son, I'll clean up the mess. If you want to help you can hold him while I clean up the mess and get fresh sheets for his bed."

So, she sat on the floor holding Ethan in her lap while I cleaned up. I had just finished cleaning up the mess and was putting sheets on the bed when I heard Ethan barfing all over Jo. It was gross and not exactly the best way to make a good impression on someone you are dating. But Jo was not fazed and it was then that I knew I had a keeper. Jo and I got married 6 months later.

God tells the church at Laodicea that because they are lukewarm that he wants to spit them out of his mouth. It is not a pleasant picture and not a pleasant thought to think that God feels that way about us. Why does God dislike lukewarm Christians so much he wants to toss his cookies? I think that if you are cold or indifferent toward Christ you are not a bad witness because people just don't associate you with Jesus. If you are lukewarm you claim Christ but show no change in your life and are a bad witness and I think that is what God finds so distasteful. So, what is your thermostat set on?

 

Upon Further Review:

 

Read Revelation 3:14-22

 

• What was the church at Laodicea's main problem?
• Where the people at Laodicea as self sufficient as they thought they were?
• What does it mean to overcome? And overcome what?