Luke Warm

[vjnycguy]

Luke 12:49… And Jesus said, “I came that I might set the world on fire and how I wish it were already blazing.”

Luke warm, luke warm, beware the middle ground. Don’t be content to stay where you are. What can I say? What can I do to convince? Don’t be luke warm. Run from it, fight it, scream, shout. My Cradle Catholic, my annoying friends I know how you feel. A life of Sundays breeds content. I’m Catholic… I just am. It was the way I was raised. But WHY are you Catholic? Look into my eyes and make me under stand. I know, I know, it’s been a habit for me too. My mind says there must be a God, my parents say there must be a God, but when I say there must be a God… do I really believe it? Do I feel it? Do I see? Luke warm, luke warm, beware the middle ground. Don’t preach with your lips what you’ve never felt in your heart. For who wants to hear words without meaning? Who would listen to a profession of faith without passion? How many times have I gone to Church but had difficultly just saying to name… Jesus. Jesus.

Oh my Jesus, savior and friend. Redeemer and rebel. Rebel with a cause and that causes me. Lord Jesus, I am the cause of your suffering. I am the cause that makes separation from you. I am the one who sins but praise you Lord Jesus Christ, I am the one who gets to be forgiven. It’s my cross that you carry but Lord Jesus, it’s me who you died for, it’s me who you love, it’s me, it’s me. But don’t fool yourself, I haven’t lost my focus. It’s you too. Jesus didn’t HALF die for you, he was not HALF scourged for you, and he does not right now at this moment HALF love you. He does not sit in Church waiting to love you on Sunday. He does not HALF forgive you in confession, or is HALF present in the Eucharist. He is living to the fullest, giving to the fullest, loving to the fullest and if he is… What are you? If you are not for him, you are against him. So tell me… what do you profess? What do you see? Are you hot or cold? Are you burning on fire for Christ? Do you want to be? Do you cry to be? Do you BURN to be? Lord Jesus Christ, who is burning for me and who my spirit burns for in return. Lord Jesus, the definition of spiritual heat, the blue flame of love, the thermonuclear core of the universe, the one who sets MY soul at Fahrenheit 1,000. I want to spontaneously com-bust. I want to be a pyro-maniac setting all those around me a flame and that’s what I want to be. But now you tell me… what do you want to be? Luke warm?

I came that I might set the world on fire and how I wish it were already blazing.

Audio version - youtube.com/watch?v=9OO4p2F1m2c

Opinions?

• Vjnycguy

 

[teenphilo1]

AWESOME! who wrote it?

 

[vjnycguy]

AWESOME! who wrote it?

I’m not sure… I tried to look but found nothing. It might just be a speech made up by Kolbe1019 (the YouTuber whom uploaded it). I posted a link to it at the bottom of it, just in case you didn’t see it. God Bless!

 

[da_nolo]

I’d disagree with the sense that Jesus was or is a rebel.
Rise in opposition…yes Jesus has done so as we must. however, we are fighting against those who originally rose to fight God. Are we not?

 

[M-Dent]

Opinions?

It’s certainly deadly to be apathetic and half-hearted. Not open to change.

I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot.
So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth.
Rev 3:15,16

Also,

Conversion requires convincing of sin; it includes the interior judgment of conscience, and this, being a proof of the action of the Spirit of truth in man’s inmost being, (CCC 1848).

If one isn’t open to the Holy Spirit’s “convincing,” God can do nothing. He doesn’t force conversions. One can be lost. It is notable the extreme “cold” is preferable to the “lukewarm.” The one who is cold, non-believing and bitter may be open to convincing.

 

[archangel04]

I’d disagree with the sense that Jesus was or is a rebel.
Rise in opposition…yes Jesus has done so as we must. however, we are fighting against those who originally rose to fight God. Are we not?

I can see Jesus being a rebel, but it depends from what view point you see it from. The the Church’s POV he is the perfect obedient son, but to anyone else he is someone who stood against the system of his time. In a way us Christians are rebels to the secular world. We refuse to live by it’s way of life and instead choose to life a Christ-like life. That is rebellion in my opinion.

 

[archangel04]

It’s certainly deadly to be apathetic and half-hearted. Not open to change.

Also,

If one isn’t open to the Holy Spirit’s “convincing,” God can do nothing. He doesn’t force conversions. One can be lost. It is notable the extreme “cold” is preferable to the “lukewarm.” The one who is cold, non-believing and bitter may be open to convincing.

But what kind of change? Change as in someone turns completely towards God? Or change like those in the Church who wish to bring in more poison into the Church to i.e. lukewarm catholics.

 

[M-Dent]

But what kind of change?

Since we understand conversion requires convincing of sin (work of the Holy Spirit) change prompted by one’s properly forming conscience.

The Church of Laodicea, noted in the Apocalypse of John, is an example of the failure to be open to a necessary change of orientation.

Tepidity in a Christian life, and in the service of God, is oftentimes more dangerous than absolute wickedness. The open sinner is easily made sensible of his danger; he experiences the stings and reproaches of conscience, whilst the tepid Christian lives without remorse, fear, or apprehension, and listens not to those who wish to shew him the danger of his situation. I dare venture to affirm, says St. Augustine, that to fall into some public and manifest sin would be of advantage to the proud, that so those who by their self-complacency had so often fallen before, may now become displeased with themselves and humble. (Calmet)

Haydock’s Bible Commentary

The Christians of Laodicea did not realize how precarious their spiritual situation was. The city’s flourishing trade and industry, and the fact that the church was not being persecuted in any way, made them eel prosperous and content: they were proud as well as lukewarm. They had fallen victim to that self-conceit the wealthy are always inclined to feel and which moved our Lord to say that rich people enter heaven only with difficulty (cf. Mt 19:23); he often pointed to the dangers of becoming attached to material things (cf. Lk 1:53; 6:24; 12:21; 16:19-31; 18:23-25). The Laodiceans had become proud in their prosperity and did not see the need for divine grace (which is worth more than all the wealth in the world). As St Paul says in one of his letters: “Whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ” (Phil 3:7-8).

Navarre Bible Commentaries

 

[Nelka]

Jesus Divine Mercy to St. Faustina.

580

Their love is lukewarm, and My Heart cannot bear it; these souls force Me to reject them.

1702

Souls without love and without devotion, souls full of egoism and self-love, souls full of pride and arrogance, souls full of deceit and hypocrisy, lukewarm souls who have just enough warmth to keep them alive: My Heart cannot bear this.