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Lukewarm

Lukewarm. Sounds like a word that describes that plate of mashed potatoes from yesterday night. (That isn’t actually the best illustration… mashed potatoes go pretty quick in our house 🙂 But you get the point. The warmed up plate, not the hot and fresh plate. Mediocre. The just OK. Not great but yet not terrible. The fire is not out, nor is it blazing, just simmering. My question is are you lukewarm? I think Christians, especially in the USA can fall it the trap of being a Christian, not a Christ-ian. Little do we think of our fellow brothers and sisters in Christ who are dying, being persecuted and imprisoned for Christ in countries far away to us. Too often our world is made up of the 30 miles around our houses. Too often our “fire” dies down. We read books with titles like ‘Radical’ and ‘Do Hard Things’ and we get all pumped up and ready to go and our fire blazes for a while like someone dumped some gasoline on it and…then…we….die…….down. We go to church and put Jesus stickers on the back of our car and call ourselves good. Christians, let us not grow lukewarm and mediocre, let us look at examples like Peter, Paul and Stephen who lived, breathed, ate, drank, and even died for Christ. In King and Country’s new song “Fix my Eyes” the chorus says:

I’d love like I’m not scared
Give when it’s not fair
Live life for another
Take time for a brother
Fight for the weak ones
Speak out for freedom
Find faith in the battle
Stand tall but above it all
Fix my eyes on you

Let this be our prayer. And like the Sovereign Grace song “As Long As I Have Breath” sings, let us praise God as long as we have breath. We have as Christians in the USA a special chance, we don’t live in total poverty like South America and Africa so we have materials to help others. We have time, 24 hrs a day to serve and proclaim. And, we have freedom to be Christians, to go to a church, to vote for Christian leaders. We are living on a battle field, we need to pick up our weapons and start fighting. Let us not be lukewarm but let us live wholly for Jesus.