The Average
“If a man stand with one foot on a hot stove and one foot in a freezer, some statisticians would assert that, on the average, he’s comfortable.”
Which reminds me of some who seem to feel that they can come to church on Sunday and yet live like the devil during the week. They say that they are, on the average, pretty good people. Yet he cannot be “comfortable” any more than the man with his foot on the stove and the other in a freezer. He is the double-minded man who is unstable in all his ways. He has only enough religion to be miserable, but not enough to go to heaven.
Our Lord does not prefer an “average.” He wants His people to be either “cold or hot.” The “average” (in this case, lukewarmness) nauseates Him, and He will spew out of His mouth those who are lukewarm (Rev. 3:15,16). Brother, you had better get all the way on the Lord’s side now lest you spend eternity with the Devil.
– by Forrest Moye