Underachievers or Overcomers Revelation 3:21

21"To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. 22"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." '



Jesus gives even the most unpleasing church a glorious promise. Christ loves us all. He died for us all. He died for the good, the bad and the ugly. His promises are not out of reach for anyone. His salvation is available to all who would come to Him as He knocks at their hearts door and open that door and allow Him to come in and provide for them.

Our obedience is all that the Lord of Glory is looking for. Obedience begins at the cross and His sin sacrifice on our behalf. Obedience is required to open that door. Jesus pleads with us to come to Him. His Word tells us that we need Him. His Spirit convicts us of our lost condition because of the sin that is in our lives. Jesus has come to seek and to save them that are lost. He came for the church at Laodicea just as He did for the church at Philadelphia.

He says to those who overcome, I will grant to sit with Me on My throne. Jesus is not asking us to do anything that He Himself did not first do. He tells us that I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne. When Jesus asks us to overcome, He is not instructing us to overcome just because He did, but rather because He knows the benefits that were His as He overcame the lust of the flesh and the lure of the world. He knew the benefits of living His life as the Word of God instructed Him to do. He knows the benefits that are ours if we too will overcome the lust of the flesh and the lure of the world in our own lives.

The throne that Jesus grants us to sit at is the throne that God Himself has given to His Son. Jesus' promise is that we will share in His glory and His honor and as joint heirs with Him, everything that God has reserved for Him in heaven, He has reserved for us as well. All we need to do is persevere and overcome temptation in our lives and make decisions that bring honor and glory to Him who has overcome and sits on the throne in heaven.

"He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches." What else is there to say? We have a choice. We can listen to the Word of God and the promises that are there and we can do one of two things. We can choose to follow their instruction and live our lives according to its instruction or we can do as the Laodicean church was doing and revel in our own luxuries and our own abilities and wake up one day and find our lives empty or as Jesus warns, "and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked."

Just give me Jesus.