“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!” Revelation 3:15

“Why is it so cold in here?” I thought. The temperature outside was chilly, but the electric fireplace was turned on and the heater was blazing orange! As I lay under a light blanket watching a football game, I still felt a chill… “must be my age.” That thought was suddenly interrupted when I asked Katie… ”Is our AC on?”

It is a habit to turn the AC down a little lower at night so we can sleep better. Waking up to a slight chill, I had tuned on the heater… totally forgetting about the air conditioner being on. Then last night, I had a conflicting chill in the direct presence of heat! DUH!! Feeling a little stupid, I remembered this verse.

Revelation 3 is Jesus’ continued evaluation of the 7 existing Churches at the time of John’s writing of Revelation. Judgments, which started in Chapter 2, end with this verse describing the very last of the 7 churches… Laodicea. Known as the ‘lukewarm church,’ Jesus was disappointed in them to the point of throwing up!

The 7 Churches really did exist when John wrote down the vision. But the 7 church’s judgments also describe the character of The Church, over time, to today. Today in 2024, I am living in the age of the Church of Laodicea! Yup… that means that, over all, ‘Christians today are noted for being mostly lazy and apathetic!!

As I lay there under the AC vent and under that blanket, I was chilly. But I didn’t really bother to get up to do anything about my condition. Finally, when I put 2+2 together, I took action. Jesus says He respects fired up followers of satan more than cold-hearted church goers. Those words leave me with a convicted choice!

Am I on FIRE for Jesus? Or am I just cool to the notion of being His fireball for change? And what about YOU?