“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. I know your deeds, that you are
neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you
are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”
(Revelation 3: 14-16)
A prominent businessman who was
enrolling his son in a well-known university shook his head as he examined the
school's catalog of studies. “Does my son have to take all these courses?’ he
asked the dean. “Can’t you make it shorter? He wants to get out quickly.”
“Certainly, he can take a shorter
course,” replied the dean. “But it all depends on what your son wants to be.
When God wants to make an oak tree He takes twenty years, but he only takes two
months to make a squash.”
Short cuts are attractive, and you
are free to take the easy way out, but that’s being ordinary, one of the crowd,
being mediocre.
In this scripture, God calls mediocrity,
lukewarmness. The people of the Laodicean church were neither hot nor cold,
they were complacent, they were unconcerned with accomplishment and they were
just going through the motions. The world is full of mediocrity. Mediocrity is
the state of being moderate to inferior in quality; ordinary. God did not
create us to be mediocre, ordinary people.
Man did not evolve from some ameba
in the ocean millions of years ago like the scientists want us to believe. We
did not evolve from the monkey as the evolutionists tell us. I don’t know about
you but I was created in the image and likeness of God (Genesis
1:27). We’re extraordinary in every way through Jesus Christ. God
gifted us with the ability to think, to express ourselves with words, to love
and to know that we were created by Him.
We are God’s creation. His
character went into the creation of every one of us. When you feel worthless or
even begin to hate yourself, remember that God is in you, ready and willing to
work within you.
Always remember who you are; we
are His children, we are His church. We have the promise of His abiding love
and presence. We are heirs of heaven. We can do anything through Christ. Don’t
settle for less than your best. God has given us His Spirit, His Word, His
blessings, He has given you gifts. Now he expects us to do our best for His
honor and glory.
If you are living a mediocre
existence, your soul is in danger. The very clear message from God is that He
is fed up with and will not tolerate mediocrity in his people.
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