I'm gonna puke

Revelation 3:15-18 15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 17You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. 18I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.

The word for spit really means to vomit or gag uncontrollably because you are sick. If you ever had a stomach virus, or food poisoning, it is the same feeling God has toward those who are luke warm Christians. Does God get violently sick by the fact that I am not giving my all? I mean, something has to be better than nothing, right? Surely, He is pleased by the things I am doing as opposed to the things I am not doing, right?

1 John 2:3-4 3We know that we have come to know him if we obey his commands. 4The man who says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

Matthew 16:24-25 24Then Jesus said to his disciples, "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever wants to save his life[a] will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.

These verses make it sound as if God is not alright with our half hearted attempts at being Christ Followers. It sounds as if Jesus wants us to give every part of our lives to Him and not just portions of it. I guess, just like the rich man, in Luke 18 that Jesus wants us to not just give up almost everything, but all of it.

If I am honest I give up things to God that I want to give up to Him. What if He asked me to give up something I was not really wanting to give up? What if He called me to do something no one else understood including myself? What if me following Christ cost me everything? Is that not what it should cost?

Honestly, I have given as much to Christ as I feel comfortable with.

If we go back to the revelations that John and Isaiah had,(Isaiah 6:2-4 and Revelation 4:7-9) would this indescribable God be worthy of everything? Of course the answer is yes and more, but how easy it is to grow comfortable in our Americanized Christianity. How easy it is to get distracted by the temporary things of life instead of with the awesomeness of God.

What am I not willing to give to Christ?
Who am I willing not to forgive for Christ?
What amount of money will I not spend for Christ?
What am I not willing to do for Christ?

Whatever those answers are shows what I value more than Christ. And whatever those things are,is why God vomits.