OUR DAILY BREAD : CROOKED HOUSE

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March 21
Saturday


CROOKED
HOUSE

READ:
Revelation 3:14-20
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As many as I love, I
rebuke and chasten.
Therefore be zealous
and repent.
__Revelation 3:19
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When Robert Klose first moved into his 100-year-old house, its strange sounds were disconcerting. A carpenter told him the house was crooked. Klose admitted, "I could see it in the floors, the ceilings, the roofline, the door jambs, even the window frames. Drop a ball on the floor and it will roll away into oblivion." seventeen years later, the house is still holding together and he has gotten used to it and even grown to love it.

In Revelation, Jesus confronted a church that had become accustomed to its crooked spirituality and had even grown to love its inconsistencies. Laodicea was a well-to-do city. Yet that very wealth led to its delusion of self-sufficiency. This had bled into the culture of the church and produced a crooked, "we don't need Jesus" type of spirituality. Therefore, Jesus rebuked these believers, calling them "lukewarm,...wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked" (3:16-17). He rebuked them because He loved them and still wanted an ever-deepening communion with them. So He gave them opportunity to repent (v.19).

If self-sufficiency has skewed your fellowship with Jesus, you can straighten it through repentance and a renewal of intimate fellowship with Him. __Marvin Williams
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```````````````````Not to the world is the portion`````````````````
```````````````````Of fellowship sweet with God,``````````````````
`````````````````````But to the humble believer``````````````````
```````````````Who trusts in his faithful Word. __Anon.`````````````
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Repentance is God's way
of making the crooked straight.

*************Today's Bible Reading __ Revelation 3:14-20**********

14 And to the angel of the
church of the Laodiceans
write,
"These things says the
Amen, the Faithful and
True witness, the
Beginning of the creation of
God: 15 'I know your works,
that you are neither cold
nor hot. I could wish you
were cold or hot, 16 So then,
because you are lukewarm,
and neither cold nor hot,
I will vomit you out of My
mouth. 17 Because you say,
"I am rich, have become
wealthy, and have need of
nothing" __and do not know
that you are wretched,
miserable, poor, blind, and
naked__ 18 I counsel you to
buy from Me gold refined
in the fire, that you may be
rich; and white garments,
that you may be clothed,
that the shame of your
nakedness may not be
revealed; and anoint your
eyes with eye salve, that
you may see. 19 As many as
I love, I rebuke and chasten.
Therefore be zealous and
repent. 20 Behold, I stand at
the door and knock. If
anyone hears My voice and
opens the door, I will come
in to him and dine with
him, and he with Me.' "

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Laodicea, a very rich commercial city, was well known for its high-
quality, black wool cloth and for a medicinal eye ointment. It was
dependent for its water supply on Hieropolis, famous for its hot
springs. And on Colosse, known for its pure, cold drinking water.
By the time this piped water reached Laodicea, it had become
lukewarm. The stern rebuke "you are lukewarm, and neither cold
nor hot... poor, blind, and naked" (vv.16-17) and the call to
repentance (v.18) are crouched in terms of this city's economic
activities. __Sim Kay Tee

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