Lukewarm and Their Sin

Me:  How is the water?

Prodigal:  It is lukewarm.

Me:  Water might be nice lukewarm but God doesn’t want our spiritual life to look like that.

This is from the book  Crazy Love by Francis Chan

Lukewarm people don’t really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.  They don’t genuinely hate sin and aren’t truly sorry for it;  they’re merely sorry because God is going to punish them.  Luke warm people don’t really believe that this new life Jesus offers is better than the old sinful one.

“I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10)

“What shall we say, then?  Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase?  By no means!  We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?”  Romans 6:1-2

I was lukewarm for a very long time.  I remember not feeling upset by sin, and did not take it serious.  Also I remembering thinking that I was intelligent, and I could figure out the best for my life, and not God.  I was very wrong.  I managed to make the outside of my life look very nice but the inside felt empty and hollow.  Jesus really does bring Life!

Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.  But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.

Galatians 3:24-25

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org

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