Revelation 3:14-22

Revelation 3:14-22
English Standard Version (ESV)

  I've always believed that this passage described much of the American church -- we can be so comfortable that our passion for Christ doesn't run hot.  We're lukewarm, heating up on some days and cooler on others.  Our material riches have lulled us into a sense of complacency where we don't recognize our full need for grace, and this leads us to a spiritual blindness that prevents us from seeing how utterly dependent we are upon the Spirit of God for our every breath.  We think we are rich, and yet if we were to see our accounts from a spiritual perspective, we are utterly broke, because the only riches worth obtaining are from God and God alone.  No money or success in this world can buy true and lasting wealth -- it is a gift from God alone, who stands at the door and knocks, asking to be let in, so that we might be healed. 
  Those who open the door will be rich beyond measure, with a wealth that the world cannot imagine.  May we who accept the gift have the courage to pray for Holy Spirit passion to love Christ more each and every day.