In Hot Water
It’s a wonderful thing when you turn on the shower
first thing in the morning and the water is hot. My mornings start relatively early. My friends call it O’dark thirty. I love the quiet and stillness of the day
before sunrise. What I cannot stand is a
lukewarm shower. Our water does get hot
but it depends on what time of day you plan to take a shower. If it’s after 6:30 am, you are relatively
safe, the water will be hot. You are out
of luck before 6 am. A few weeks ago,
one of the water heaters bit the dust and water came pouring down into the kitchen
flooding out the vent hood and cook-top ignition lighters. After several attempts to find a reputable service to correct the
problem, we finally hired a great couple of plumbers to replace the heater with
a more efficient larger one. I am a
happy camper. At last, I am able to depend
on hot water any time of day. No more
lukewarm water for me. I get the
temperature of water I expect whenever I turn on the faucet. The faucet produces hot water as designed.
Romans 12:1-2
12 I beseech you therefore,
brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living
sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which
is your reasonable service. 2 And do
not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that you may prove what is that
good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
You may have
thought I would have used Revelation
3:15-16
15 “I know your works, that you are neither cold
nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So
then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out
of My mouth.”
We do need to choose either
hot or cold in our spiritual walk.
Lukewarm Christianity is worthless both for the Christian and for the
unsaved. It helps neither. Some have been lukewarm so long; the
difference is no longer perceptible. Instead,
I used Romans 12:1-2 which speaks to the crux of the problem. The issue is not with the water but the hot
water heater which was no longer functioning properly. It had been that way so long; I had gotten
use to the temperature. When the heater finally
died, a new one was put in place.
Have you been living a
broken life? Present yourself to God
but be aware, there is no sacrifice until death occurs. When we give our mind, body and soul to God,
putting to death our plans, our wants and our desires, He transforms our
minds. We will then want what He wants,
do what He does and love whom He loves.
Just like the hot water heater, you must die first and be made new
before you do what is good and acceptable to God, those things you were
designed to do.
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