Lukewarm

Growing up I thought that God would rather us be antagonistic to Him than apathetic; that is what I thought Revelation 3:15-16 was about. I understood “hot” to mean “on fire and full of zeal” and “cold” to mean “no desire for a relationship at all, or even being against God.” I thought “lukewarm,” then, was just an apathetic Christian, someone who named the name of Christ but never did anything, someone who never bore fruit of any kind. I still hold to the same definition of “lukewarm,” but my understanding of “hot” and “cold” have changed. I have learned that on one side of Laodicea were good, cold drinking waters, and on another side there were mineral hot springs, good for health. The waters flowed and converged in the area around the city of Laodicea and became lukewarm – good neither for drinking, nor for health. Jesus knew the deeds of the Laodiceans, or rather the lack thereof. They were not bearing fruit of any kind; their faith, having no works, was dead, which is why Jesus was going to spew them out of His mouth. If we don’t show our faith by our works, the same will happen to us.