"Call to me and I will answer you, and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. " Jeremiah 33:3

Monday, April 9, 2012

"I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I wish that you were cold or hot. So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold; I will spit you out of my mouth." Revelation 3:15-16 NASB

When you read today's title verse does it leave any doubt in your mind how God feels about lukewarm?  Yesterday was every believer in Jesus Christ day!! Easter the day we celebrate our Lord's resurrection from the dead! If you walked in some churches yesterday would you see celebration,worship, joy, exaltation, shouts of praise, arms in the air or would you see, quiet, stone face, stand up sit down ritual?

Why is it that we can go crazy in stadiums all over the world shouting, doing the wave, stomping our feet chanting in unison for our favorite team? Or how about music concerts; rock, country it doesn't matter, people show feeling, passion, why not in church? 

Is it possible that what we call reverence, God calls lukewarm? What if you came home from work or a business trip and your children  rose quietly in unison and mouthed the words welcome home O father, with blank expressions on their faces? Compare that to children running, crying out Daddy, Daddy and throwing their arms around your legs, big smiles on their faces, full of love.  Now really, which would you rather have?

What does the Word of God have to say regarding our emotions toward God? 
What does He have to say about what He desires from His children? We are going to look at just five verses.

"And the disciples were continually filled with joy and with the Holy Spirit." Acts 13:52 NASB

"Whatever has been commanded by the God of heaven let it be done with zeal!" Ezra 7:23 NASB

"Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor; be aglow and burning with the Spirit, serving the LORD." Romans 12:11 Amplified

"Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men." Colossians 3:23 NASB

" Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more." 1 Thessalonians 4:1,10 NASB

 

  


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