Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty? The Danger of Partiality.

From the standpoint of an ex-lukewarm person (by the grace of God, now i'm hot, it's everything or nothing), i can say without any shadow of doubt, that commitment matters. In my BC (before Christ) life, i rarely commit myself to anything or anyone, because i knew that commitment always costs something and i was rarely willing to pay the price. Unfortunately, the very reason we, christians, don't see God's glory as the early church saw, it's because we are not willing to fully commit ourselves to what God is calling us to, we're most the time divided between pleasing God and someone else, between God's plan for our lives and our own. The Bible says in James 2:1. In the context, James is talking about personal favoritism, when believers were making distinction between rich and poor (sounds familiar?), and he is saying in James 2:9. So, every time you and i are showing partiality, we are sinning, that's how dangerous partiality is. Paul says in Romans 2:11. God does not see color skin, background, possessions, etc., when He looks at us, we are in the same level before Him. Answering the question: Is the glass half full or half empty? Does it matter if "lukewarm" is half cold or half hot? Well, according to Jesus it doesn't, in fact He says this: Revelation 3:15-16. So, for Jesus being lukewarm is even worse than being cold, Why? Because, just like the pharisees, the person "appears" to be good but in fact is just bad. I always thought i was a "good" person, until i met Jesus Christ and realized how "bad" i was. Jesus said this: Luke 18:19. Of course Jesus wasn't saying "He was not good", He Is God, He was saying that there's no human being who is good. So, by doing "church" things, we don't become any better than we used to be. It's the Holy Spirit in us, molding Jesus' character in us, helping us to bear His Fruit, which contains a "seed" called Goodness. Again, along the way we've being offered a "cheap" gospel where the "lukewarm" is good enough, where we are never confronted with the reality of God's Kingdom: Matthew 10:39. Remember the Parable of the 10 Virgins? Who entered in the wedding? I wrote a Post about it: Wisdom vs. Foolishness: What kind of Believer are You? So, it doesn't matter if you are "Half Committed", before God there's not partiality!