This chapter of the book of Revelation is asking one question:
Are you in or are you out?
Are you lukewarm, the voice asks.....then I will spit you out. Lukewarm means we are neither in or out; we are riding the fence. God doesn't call us to ride the fence but to put our skin in the game---to put our whole self into this process of sanctification, of being made holy so that we may make Christ known in the world.
"Look, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut." (3:8)
In Christ, God has removed all barriers between us and God. The obstacle between earth (where humans dwell) and heaven (where God dwells) has been removed. Will we choose to stand at the threshold (I love Jesus, but....) or will we step over into the realm where we believe that Jesus, the Messiah, lives and reigns....and therefore, calls us to live differently than we did when we lived on the other side?
The choice is ours. No one can take away that choice. But we can certainly deny it.
Are you in or are you out?
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