A pot of water has no inherent ability to make itself hot. But if it is placed on the stove it has to get hot. If we abide in Christ continually we cannot be cold or lukewarm, anymore than a pot of water on the stove can remain cold or lukewarm.
https://ianvincent.wordpress.com/2012/02/03/how-to-get-warm-get-closer-to-the-fire/
August 2, 2012 at 4:12 am
Regarding whether we are hot, lukewarm or cold : we are like a pot on the stove and Jesus is the fire. The pot has no heat of its own – its heat depends on its ‘relationship’ to the fire.
The same with us : whether we are hot or cold is not a matter of our own ability or power, it is determined by our relationship to Jesus.
You would never praise the pot on the stove for being hot.
If we are in contact with Him, and abide in Him, we will be hot.
Our love cools as soon as we neglect that relationship – His fellowship.
“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot: I would that you were cold or hot. So then because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth.”
(Rev 3:15-16)
Their lukewarmness, here, was not that they believed in heresies or were false teachers.
It is rather that they were not passionate about the glorious, stupendous truth of Christ Jesus, and His glorious life.
They became passionate about material things, and bored with Jesus.
Money, and the things of this world, did it for them more than Jesus.
August 2, 2012 at 11:54 am
I agree. No wonder Proverbs 4:23 says we need to guard our hearts.