No Middle-Ground Christianity! (#143)

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

As a child there was a rhyme I liked a lot.  It went like this:

“Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold,

Pease porridge in the pot nine days old.

Some like it hot, some like it cold

Some like it in the pot nine days old!”

How I liked that rhyme.  Now I’m not so sure anything in the pot nine days old is worth eating!

But it is interesting that the two ways the porridge was liked was ‘hot’ or ‘cold.’  Certainly not lukewarm!

Jesus in speaking to the Church of Laodicea is against middle-ground Christianity.  Either you’re a Christian or you’re not.  Either be on fire for God with your whole heart or forget about it.  It was Jesus who said no man can serve two masters.  It must be God or Satan!

Lukewarmness is to be abhorred. Verse 16 states “So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”

(I remember my uncle once told me he could not drink lukewarm tea; it had to be piping hot, otherwise it would upset his stomach.)

Let’s be on fire for Jesus, so that He will be satisfied with us.  Let’s be dissatisfied with middle-ground Christianity.

©Kerina Hall