Revelation 3:14"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:
These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. 15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. 19Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest, and repent. 20Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. 21To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.
These words may seem harsh at first but it’s actually a calling to live a radical life. You see it all too much in the Christian faith of people making compromises. This may be doing a little bit of something even though God has told you not to. This happened to me last semester and at the Onething conference in Kansas City put on by the International House of Prayer, God broke me of it. At this conference I fell more in love with God and could see how much Whitewater needed God, whether it on campus or in the city in general. I saw the luke-warmness in the Christian family here in Whitewater and how we need to be praying for our own brothers and sisters in the faith and pray they stop making compromises and start living the radical life of love that God has called us to.
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