As a mother, I often times have the need to adjust the temperature of my infant’s feeding. Sometimes it is too warm and I either let it cool in its own time or pour cold water into it. Other days, it is too hot and needs to be cooled so that it is tolerable to him. Likewise shall we pour into our lives to make it hot and appealing to God.
It is no odd request that we are to understand and resonate with God’s preference for us to be either hot or cold. Does God really prefer us to be cold even? Hear me out, am going somewhere.
What does it mean to be hot?
God tells us in Revelation 3:16 that because we are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold He will spit us out of His mouth. What does this mean? To be hot means that you are a saint. You operate in holiness and the spirit of Christ lives in you. The fruits of the Spirit will be evident. As many would put it, you are on “fire for God” or “radical”. Take for consideration Jeremiah 20:9 where Jeremiah says the word was in his heart as a burning fire shut up in his bones. Fire is hot right? Exactly! A life filled of holiness lead by the word of God makes us even more appealing to God. He will not spit us out or in other words, reject and eject us like a vomit.
What does it mean to be cold and does God prefers it?
A “cold” persons is one that is not following Christ nor living a life that exemplifies the gospel of the kingdom of God. They have backslid from their position in Christ into a world of sin, totally disengaged from the Holy Spirit. Such a person may also have not come to know God nor serve Him. They are the total opposite of hot. The word of God calls such person a fool, having returned to his own vomit, 2 Peter 2:22. There is however hope for the cold & backslider as He promises to marry them and give them shepherds according to His heart, who will feed them with knowledge and understanding Jeremiah 3:14-15. His Son Jesus came and died so that you may have life and have it more abundantly. Whosoever receives Him receives God.
God marries the backslider
This marriage however only truly works if there is unison. In God there is no darkness and as such, requires that you walk in the light with Him. He is holy and thus you are required to be holy as well. 1 Peter 15:15-17 and 1 John 1:5
What does it mean to be Lukewarm and how to remedy this?
To get to the point of being spat out means you would have been walking contrary to the life that God has called you to walk despite proclaiming that you are a child of God. It’s like wearing your wedding ring as a symbol of being married even though you are divorced. It is a deception to those looking in and even more so a dangerous deception to yourself walking this way, believing that you are still walking in unison with God. Why is it more dangerous for you? Because you are already convinced you are not in need of saving because you are already saved.
I remedied this by truly seeking after the things of God and allowing His word to plant seeds of righteousness in my life. 1 John 3:7. I became born again, this time of God. We were all born of man, in the flesh where sin is a common denominator. The world is fashioned to show us how to function out of the flesh but not of the spirit because they are not operating from a position of godliness. I understood that I could not walk as a child of God without the word of God and acted upon it by conceiving a reading plan and made time to commune with God in prayer. In other words, I poured fire into my lukewarm life and changed the state of it.
Since then its been a glorious journey and I am experiencing freedom of spirit. I no longer feel afraid and I am no longer condemned because there is no condemnations for those in Christ Jesus. Blessed the Lord! Romans 8:1. Be encouraged that you can too and feel free to share your progress with us. He came that you might have life, lets have it more abundantly!
Yours tryly,
Chantel Reid
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