GROWING COLD
Today's reading:  Matthew 23-25

"Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold."  Matthew 24:12 NLT

Humor me this morning as share what I've found in this verse...

I don't often refer to an online Greek lexicon for help with my morning writings.  You see, it's usually 'Greek' to me.  Ha ha ha!   Okay, on with the devotion.

A Lexicon breaks down any given verse on a word by word basis.  You can choose to have it translated for you in Greek or in Hebrew.  This translation allows one to see what the original thoughts were and how, in changing to our everyday language, thoughts might be lost.

Such as the words for 'grow cold'.

Most of us know what it means.

We understand it completely.

Some of us have/are/will experience it for ourselves.  Whether we like to admit it or not.

But to look deeper into the words this morning, I was surprised and mystified to see what Christ meant when He chose those specific words.

The Lexicon says the words mean,  'to blow on in order to cool off'.  Like one would a spoonful of hot soup.

How I understand it...Satan has not in this instance huffed and puffed and blown our hopes and love away, but he has made every effort he could to 'cool off' our love for Christ by distracting us.  And those distractions are not always black and filled with sin!  They busy us.  They grab our attentions.  They re-route our paths.  They seductively take our focus off of God and our devotion to him.

I'm going to be a little more aware of what's 'blowing' my way today.  Maybe you should, too.