SOAP 2 Chronicles 17: Hot

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2 Chronicles 17

I think I knew what I was going to write about before I even started.  Maybe because He’s been talking to me about a few things. Maybe because it’s here in this chapter. Maybe because you have been thinking about it too.

And his heart took delight in the ways of the Lord; moreover he removed the high places and wooden images from Judah.

‭‭II Chronicles‬ ‭17‬:‭6‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

What have I been delighting in rather than seeking the Lord? What have I been running to instead of prayer?

It’s good to take a look at your heart, your activity, and your motives and ask God to purify you, to remove any high thing.  I’m an avoider. I often will put things off instead of trying to problem solve. I will fill my time with nonsense instead of pushing into prayer.

And if I can be honest with you, at the end of my life I don’t want to look back or worse hear God say I was a lazy Christian. I just don't. I don't want to hear that I made solitaire an idol because I wanted to numb my thoughts rather than engage in spiritual warfare.

I want to be hot for Jesus. Like crazy hot. Not kinda hot or hot for some and warm for others. Like no matter what, you know I'm hot for Jesus. I don't want to live in the middle.

““I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth.”

‭‭Revelation‬ ‭3‬:‭15‬-‭16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

I've been thinking I'm hot. Truly. I love the Lord. I am all in. And listen I'm not saying we should compare ourselves to one another because that's not good and not why we are on the earth together. But when I look at a continuum of the possibilities of how to love or not love Jesus, where am I?

Cold water boils faster than warm.

Jesus- I want to encounter You in such a way that I am forever changed. That I am always burning for you Lord.  I'm not found warm, or cold. I will stir my own hunger and thirst for the things of God and never be satisfied with yesterdays meal- but will be with You daily being fed in your presence. In Jesus’s name amen.