"I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.  Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine.  I don't want enough of God to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant.  I want ecstasy, not transformation. I want warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please."

                                         -Wilbur Rees

How much of God do you want?  Just enough to make you feel comfortable, or just enough to make you happy inside?  Because if so, that's not enough.  The Scripture says, "And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (Ephesians 3:19) We have to be filled with God! When this happens, we will be completely transformed, and the difference in our lives will be no less than the difference between darkness and light, or death and life (Acts 26:18, John 5:24).

In the poem by Wilbur Rees, he says, "I don't want enough of God to make me love a black man or pick beets with a migrant."  What's your limit?  Does your heart say, "I don't want enough of God to make me lose my best friend, or give up my favorite T.V. show."  If the answer is yes, remember that Jesus said in Luke 14:33, "...whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple."  This means that when we come to Christ we have to give Him everything. We can't hold anything back.

"So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out my mouth."

                                -Revelation 3:16

It has been said that the most miserable person in the world today is not the sinner, nor is it the child of God.  It is the lukewarm Christian.  The sin in their life will keep them from God, and what little they have of God in their life will keep them from enjoying all the pleasures of sin. I like how J.C. Ryle puts it in his book, Holiness:

Are you lukewarm, and cold in your Christianity?  Alas, many are! They try to serve two masters: they labor to keep friends with both God and mammon...If you are such a one, I say to you this day, "Take care: remember Lot's wife."