Revelation 3:18 English Standard Version (ESV) I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.
Many bad things have been said about the church at Laodicea and with just cause but I must also acknowledge that the Lord said it isn’t too late to turn things around.
Verse 17 says; For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.
Pride of life keeps the disillusioned from recognizing what is really important. It takes a real humbling to make us realize everything we held dear is worthless. Those who hold the esteem of the world are blinded by ambition and greed. They cannot see what is truly important.
Luke 12:18-21 English Standard Version
18 And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.”’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ 21 So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
The attitude that the worldly life is all there is will be sorely disappointed when they wake up before the God of the universe and discover they have nothing to show for the life they lived. Legacy means nothing to the dead, even less to the spiritually dead.
Yet Jesus cries out to the spiritually dead, “It isn’t too late.”
Anoint me Lord that I might see your glory.
That is a personal prayer that cannot be spoken for another soul.