Stop Sitting on the fence!

In the beginning, the Creator designed us as passionate beings in such a way that we would have an overly insuppressibly strong passionate love of Him in our hearts, but man fell and lost the passion to worldly desires, lesser things.

As Christ came to reconcile man to the Father, there is a trick the devil, the adversary and his cohorts uses to deceive man even after accepting Jesus as Lord. In Rev 3:16, the bible records Christ speaking to the church in Laodicea, “So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spit you out of my mouth”. This clearly shows that He detests ‘Lukewarmness’ and expects that men should be in earnest.

According to the dictionary, a Lukewarm person is one that shows or has little enthusiasm, interest, or conviction. Relating this to the Christian walk, a lukewarm Christian is one who is not fully convinced about his faith in Christ and/or has little zeal for God. He is one who is not fully committed to the essence of his faith and still indulges in satisfying the flesh and its evil desires, he is indifferent about working for God, he is the professing Christian that gives a false opinion of Christianity to others through his lifestyle, he is inconsistent in his walk with Christ, he is neither really here nor really there, he is in between, he prefers the neutral ground, he prefers to sit on the fence.

One cause of this indifference and inconsistency is self-conceit and self-delusion, as He told the Laodiceans ,"Because you say…"(Rev 3:17). There was a wide difference between their thoughts of themselves, and the thoughts Christ had of them! How careful should we be not to cheat our own souls! There are many in hell, who once thought themselves far in the way to heaven.

Isn’t it better to party as hard as anything, enjoy the pleasures of this world to the fullest, satisfy yourself while here and know that you have a choice spot in the lake of fire than to shuffle in between walking with Christ and the way of the world and eventually end up in the pits?

You see, there is no sitting on the fence, for no one can serve two masters, it’s either he loves one and hates the other (Matt 6:24). If following Christ is worth anything, then it is worth every thing. Apostle Paul said in Titus 2:14 that Jesus gave Himself for us to redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. He didn't endure the pain of the cross for hours, bleeding in agony for us to be lackadaisical about the things of the Spirit.

Wouldn’t you rather part with sin and self-confidence, that you may be filled with Christ's hidden treasure and receive from Him the white raiment he purchased and provided; his own imputed righteousness for justification, and the garments of holiness and sanctification? Wouldn’t you give yourself up to His word and Spirit, pray earnestly for the working of his Holy Spirit, to take away pride, prejudices, and worldly lusts? Wouldn’t you rather allow the fire of the Holy Spirit burn intensely, red hot inside of you, that anyone who comes close would feel that fire and even become engulfed in it? Make up your mind today, because the truth is that there is no place for the lukewarm in His presence.