Make Up Your Mind!

Do you ever find yourself saying, “I wish the weather would make up its mind!”? If you have 
lived here in the south for very long, you have expressed that sentiment or said it yourself. One
day it’s cold and the next day is like spring, especially in the fall and winter. You get all braced
for cold and lay out your favorite winter wear, and then you have to push it back in the closet a
couple of days later. The other side is when we get a false spring and you get your outdoor
agenda trekking and then, boom, arctic blast!

We just want it to make up its mind! I think this may be a clue to what God was saying to the
Laodiceans in Revelation 3. “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you
were either one or the other.”

I think that word a couple of thousand years past, still rings true today. Christianity seems to
have found a comfortable middle and decided to stay in the warm embrace of mediocrity. We
are not impassioned by helping the lost get found, the sick find healing, and the hurting find a loving
embrace. We create loving acts but don’t announce the Jesus that inspires those acts. We
don’t seem to believe that the delivering power of Jesus is a real thing. If we did, our witness
and our fire would be different.

Wishy-washy is the term my parent’s generation used, and I believe that is what God is saying
in Revelation 3. Make up your mind!

If you truly believe it, then act like it. It does not get much simpler than that. It is time for the
church to wake up and proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ with passion and vigor! “Take
up your cross daily…” is a commitment to grow in our faithfulness to His Kingdom.