Revelation 3:14-22
/“You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing” (17). The Laodiceans were “lukewarm” (16) and had settled into a comfortable life. Satisfied with their physical comforts and earthly security, they had traded away abundant life with Christ and unknowingly made themselves “wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked” (17). Sadly, they didn’t realize it. Jesus exposed their emptiness because, “those whom I love, I rebuke” (19).
“I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire” (18). The world offers us the illusion of happiness and ease, but this prideful self-sufficiency leads to despair and death. Life with Jesus is real gold, if we will repent and let Him in (20).