Do You Drink Your Coffee Lukewarm?
I am sure that if you drink coffee you do not like it lukewarm. You like it piping hot. Why else would you pour it into an insulated mug? The same can be said if you enjoy lemonade. You don’t drink it at room temperature. Instead, you fill the glass with ice cubes, so it gets ice cold.
What about your favorite sports team? You watch the game on television, dressed from head to toe in team logo gear, your smart phone nearby so you can follow the social media chatter about the game, at times even yelling at the players or coaches, as it they can hear you. The word fan comes from the word fanatic, which means “excessive enthusiasm or intense devotion.” Doesn’t sound lukewarm does it?
If you are a follower of Jesus now think about your relationship with Him. Are you lukewarm or room temperature? Do you sometimes just casually pursue Jesus, or do you go after Him with all that is within you? We don’t like lukewarm or room temperature beverages, nor are we lukewarm about our favorite sports team, yet in the most important relationship we can ever have we are often only lukewarm.
God does not us to be lukewarm. In fact, in the last book in the Bible, we see these words written to the Church in Laodicea … “So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth” (Revelation 3:16).
We are called to seek after God with every ounce of energy we have. We see this very thing written in the opening verse of Psalm 63 … “You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.”
In Psalm 42:1, we read a similar message … “As a deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.”
So, you see, we are not to be lukewarm followers of Jesus, but instead, we are to be piping hot in our pursuit of Him. And the good news is that if we seek Him in that manner the Bible tells us that we will find Him. In Deuteronomy 4:29 we find these words … “But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Just as your coffee tastes best when hot, your relationship with Jesus “tastes” best when it too is hot. Jesus is not lukewarm about you and you should not be lukewarm about Him either!
So, today, I ask you, are you only lukewarm for Jesus? If so, right now ask Him to ignite a passion in you that turns your lukewarmness into piping hot!