Laodicea: The Wretched Rich
Revelation 3:14-22
Too hip to sign up for God’s total rule.
We’ve got cash, and we can do suave.
We flirt with Truth, but have no resolve.”
“We have all we need, for wealth matters most.
With a nod of assent to God, we go on -
Secure in our folly, old and settled and wrong.”
“But lukewarm devotion has blinded your eyes
To your wretched condition of misery.
I stand on the outside of such piety.”
That anything’s enthroned but Thee!
The gift of communion from Your heart to mine
Makes trinkets of treasures I’d otherwise find.
But in our own time, we’d do well to remember
The Church’s condition is defined by its members.
Let our hearts leap in faith as His eyes search our souls,
With a yearning to know Him still the leader of goals,
The love that He
gave the pulse of our hearts,
And the favor of grace known as joy He imparts.