Be Passionate and Not Lukewarm!

The recurring theme throughout all of the letters written by the senior devil named Screwtape to the novice devil Wormwood in the book "The Screwtape Letters" by the famous theologian C.S.Lewis, is to make Christians indifferent so that they are rendered ineffective for the kingdom. The devils in this satirical book were not trying to get Christians to do things that were outrightly evil but rather make them live in idleness and lukewarmth. Today, if we were to look at churches, fellowships and even our own lives, lack of passion and lukewarmness is a very real problem.

In the book of Revelation, Christ when speaking to the city of Laodicea, chided the Laodicean church for their lack of passion. Laodicea had the dubious distinction of having the dirtiest and foulest water supply in Asia Minor. Not only that, but the water was tepid - neither hot nor cold. Christ therefore compared their spiritual state to the water supply of that city.
Revelation 3:15-16
I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.

The bottom line is that God wants us to be fired up. He wants us to be zealous, passionate, full of life and focussed. He does not want us to idle, standing in the sidelines but He desires our participation and involvement with passion! Jesus Himself fulfilled the prophecy that zeal for His Father's house will consume Him when he drove the monet changers out of the Temple of Jerusalem(Psalm 69:9).
John 2:13-17
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And He found in the temple those who sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers doing business. When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables. And He said to those who sold doves, “Take these things away! Do not make My Father’s house a house of merchandise!” Then His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for Your house has eaten Me up.”

How would someone you know describe your Christian walk - as lukewarm or passionate? If you have been lukewarm, it is time to confess this sin and resolve to be passionate as Jesus was. We cannot be apathetic and half hearted about such a great salvation. Such a great salvation demands our life, our all - to be lived with passion! Let's move out from the sidelines from being mere observers and let us participate to lead an active, wholehearted and passionate Christian life!