“What is the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care.” – No idea where it came from, I just saw it somewhere.
“Apathy is the suppression of the emotions of concern, excitement, motivation, and passion. Apathetic individuals don’t display interests or concerns about their emotional, social, or physical life. He or she might exhibit insensibility and / or sluggishness.” – Taken from Wikipedia’s article on Indifference.
Sometimes when I went to all of those churches, I’d get a good look around. I saw too many bored, disinterested faces. Sometimes when I see groups of Christians outside of church, they seem much the same way. No wonder we aren’t doing much of anything for God, we just don’t care.
When King David was consumed by his desire to worship God, it was expressed in the vast majority of the One hundred and Fifty Psalms he wrote to honor God.
When modern Christians are consumed by their desire to worship God, they don’t write psalms.
When King David was consumed by his desire to celebrate God, it was expressed in him dancing before the Lord with all his might.
When modern Christians are consumed by their desire to celebrate God, they don’t dance like that.
The Bible tells us twice that: “God is a consuming fire.”
Have you ever sat beside a campfire and watch the flames eat away at the wood? Did you see the ashes fall away and the cinders rise up? Were you able to notice the crackling? Fire is really something. It eats so long as there is food. It supplies heat and light so long as there is fuel. It is beautiful and dangerous at the same time. A perfect description for God… but something many Christians (and even some non-Christians) don’t respect. For that, no doubt, they’ll get burnt.
So here we are. Bored to tears sometime. Unconsumed. Unconcerned. Unexcited. Unmotivated. and Without passion. We have forsaken our first love, for which the only cure is to go back, repent, and do the things we did at first. Without that brand-new Christian passion, what are we? Without that zeal over God’s word, what pages are we really turning? Without proof that we are alive, would we not be easily mistake for being dead? Without being hot or cold, aren’t we the most dreadful condition of being lukewarm?
Without an all-consuming love for God, we are nothing at all. Our fate will be worse that the ones the Revelation churches were warned about for their failures. A even more horrible thought – we will have the experience of it all on top if its price.
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