Indifference:
As time goes by we tend to adopt subtle attitudes to suit the times we are living in. There is a danger of losing our sensitivity and become indifferent.
Take a frog and put that frog in water. Then heat the water imperceptibly, day by day increasing the temperature until the water is boiling. At no point during the increase of temperature will the frog ever offer resistance. It will never realise that the water is too hot - untill it's dead. That's the way we can be spiritually. We just become used to temperatures of the world and we don't realise that it is gradually possessing us, untl we are in its grip. So we are toying with triteness, shallowness and dullness until nothing matters anymore - whatever!
As Christians, we need be alert not to become lukewarm, neither cold or hot. This is a dangerous state to loose your zeal for the Lord our first love. He loved us first by giving himself for us while we were still sinners. And "Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will enter his house and dine with him and he with me........" (Rev. 3:20)
We can only hear this gentle knock if we listen and have the courage to open the door of our hearts to let in the Lord . In this age of noise all around and within, we need to take time to withdraw to listen. May you make time today to listen and pray:
Maranatha, Come Lord
Come Lord and be my guest
Come and take delight in my soul
Come and reign in my heart
Come and make me entirely yours.
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