Seven Churches: Laodicea

“For in Him we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:28 NKJV

Sometimes teenagers can get pretty uppity and say to their parents, “I don’t need you. I can live my own life.” To which parents sigh and know that it will never be true. But imagine the church saying that to Christ. There is no life on earth, saved or lost, that can truly say that to God. He is Life and without Him there is no life. But the Church at Laodicea did say that to Him. Oh, what a sad way to end our look at the churches, but Jesus put it last.

What they said was that they had “need of nothing”. What Jesus replied was that they were really wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. That seems that they needed a lot. But they thought they could do without God. Look at the churches today. How many say that they don’t believe the Bible? How many say that Jesus was just a man or good teacher? How many churches say that human intellect has taught us better truth than old fables? Jesus stands at the door of this church and says, “Let me in.” But sadly, like a rebellious teenager they say, “We don’t need you.”  Let us never lose sight that it is in Him only that we have life, hope, goodness and a future.

Dear Father, Guard our hearts that we might not act so foolishly to think that You are not all that we do truly need. Amen. 

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