I didn’t say that I loved them as the world went speeding bye.  I didn’t say how excellent I felt in the warmth of the afternoon sky.  I didn’t tell the story to everyone I met and missed every opportunity to voice out my regret.  I didn’t read the wisdom within the hallowed book or cry for deep discernment to the mysteries I mistook.  I didn’t say good morning before the noon day sun and wondered where they’d gone to as evening soon was done.  I didn’t say God help us in passion and in prayer, reluctantly recanting each plea that I’d lain bare.  I didn’t wake the city to warn them with my hope providing strong footing for all on slippery slope.  I didn’t tell Him thank you for forgiveness, love and grace and for giving me an eternal smile in my heart and on my face.  I didn’t say God Bless to all who would be saved instead choosing my own service to the idles that I craved.  I didn’t find the answer because I never stopped to ask, thinking myself unequal to even the smallest task.  I spoke so many phrases my words were never short but as I rambled endlessly, I did it all for sport.  Some times I spouted wisdom accidentally or just by chance and found my way to fortune and even to romance.  But the parts of life so empty along this golden way could have been filled with great treasure by the things I didn’t say.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/09/us-usa-housing-churches-idUSBRE82803120120309  And the churches continue to say that they can borrow enormous amounts of money to fund elaborate edifices without consequence to ignoring the Lord’s commands.  Fiddlesticks.  To the current America/Laodicean Church I recommend the following words of the Lord Jesus,  “To the angel of the church in Laodicea write:  These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God’s creation.  I know your deeds, and you are neither cold nor hot.  I wish you were either one or the other!  So, because you are lukewarm–neither hot nor cold–I am about to spit you out of my mouth.  You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’  But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.  I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see.  Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline.  So be earnest, and repent.  Here I am!  I stand at the door and knock.  If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.  To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.  He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.”  Revelation 3:14-22