And unto the angel
of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the
faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold
nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue
thee out of my mouth.
Because thou sayest,
I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not
that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the
fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed,
and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with
eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
As many as I love, I
rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if
any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup
with him, and he with me. To him that
overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame,
and am set down with my Father in his throne. He that hath an ear, let him hear
what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Rev 3
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We say we have NO
need.
We say we are
spiritually rich enough and need nothing.
We don't even KNOW
that we are WRETCHED.
SPIRITUALLY
WRETCHED!
wretched- in a very
unhappy or unfortunate state.
synonyms: miserable,
unhappy, sad, heartbroken, grief-stricken, sorrowful, sorry for oneself,
distressed, desolate, devastated, despairing, disconsolate, downcast, dejected,
crestfallen, cheerless, depressed, melancholy, morose, gloomy, mournful,
doleful, dismal, forlorn, woebegone
We don't know we are
MISERABLE!
SPIRITUALLY
MISERABLE!
wretchedly unhappy
or uncomfortable.
synonyms: unhappy,
sad, sorrowful, dejected, depressed, downcast, downhearted, down, despondent,
disconsolate, wretched, glum, gloomy, dismal, melancholy, woebegone, doleful,
forlorn, heartbroken
We don't know we are
POOR!
SPIRITUALLY POOR!
lacking sufficient
money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.
synonyms: poverty-stricken,
penniless, moneyless, impoverished, low-income, necessitous, impecunious,
indigent, needy, destitute, pauperized, unable to make ends meet
We don't know we are
BLIND!
SPIRITUALLY BLIND!
unable to see;
sightless.
synonyms: sightless,
unsighted, visually impaired, visionless, unseeing; More
We don't know we are
NAKED!
SPIRITUALLY NAKED!
(of a person or part
of the body) without clothes.
synonyms: nude,
bare, in the nude, stark naked, having nothing on, stripped, unclothed,
undressed
We have to ask
ourselves how can we not know when we are spiritually wretched, miserable,
poor, blind and naked? How? If these were physical we would know without a
problem. In fact we often say we are feeling wretched, or miserable. We lament
our poorness, and surely if we can't physically see we'd know what that
means. So how do we not recognize our
spiritual state?
What makes us KNOW
NOT?
More on this
tomorrow by the grace of God.
All through the
Heavenly Father's amazing LOVE by the mercy and sacrifice of our Lord Jesus
Christ!
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