Counsel #4 — Laodicea

Picture: Counsel #4 — LaodiceaCWe 14.1

What if we think we’re pretty good, our relationship with God is fine, and we really don’t need any spiritual help?CWe 14.2

If we don’t understand that without Jesus’ saving grace covering our sin we can never be saved or if we think we can pretty much be spiritually well without the Holy Spirit, we need the gift of repentance. God is willing to show us our guilt, not leaving us hopelessly deceived that we are okay in our Laodicean condition.^{[11]https://ssnet.org/blog/repentance-gods-gift/}CWe 14.3

“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—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.”Revelation 3:17, 18 NKJVCWe 14.4

“The condition of many of those who claim to be the children of God is exactly represented by the message to the Laodicean church. There is opened before those who serve God, truths of inestimable value, which… show the difference between those who serve God and those who serve Him not.”Ellen White in Our High Calling, p. 348CWe 14.5

Reflect: Do you need to pray and ask for the Holy Spirit to reveal sin in your life so you can repent and be made right with Jesus?CWe 14.6