Lukewarm leftovers

So a couple weeks ago we had a revival at church and then we had senior trip. This was where the young adults group takes the seniors in high school on a trip to wherever and gets to know them and show them that there is something for them after youth group in the church. Anyway I was in charge of this years senior trip and while looking through songs to sing and thinking/praying about what the theme should be and what I should talk about the simple word Worship stuck out to me. So our theme was Worship, living for a loving God.
While praying and searching for some sort of bible verse or something to follow one of my friends suggested I read the book "Crazy Love" by Francis Chan. The title of 5 of his chapters became kind of an outline. Some of you right now are probably thinking "how does the book crazy love work with your 'worship' theme?" easy. I believe that the only way one can truly worship is through love, so it works. We do not worship something we hate, we cant.
When we truly Love God we can truly worship Him. All weekend I also used the analogy i read about in Lui Giglios book "the Air I Breathe" he states that everyone worships and we can find out what we worship by following our path that leads to the throne. Wherever we spend most of our time, money, effort/strength is what we worship.
Anyway this all lead up to one night when I talked about being a "lukewarm" Christian and giving God "leftovers" God addresses how much he hates lukewarmness in Revelation when he says he will "Spit them out of his mouth" now when it comes to spit most of us think of the typical lugy. This is not what is being said here. This is the only time in the Bible that this Greek word is used, it translates to spit/gagging/wanting to blow chunks. We can think about this in our terms, a little, who likes their food to be lukewarm? or lukewarm coffee? or even a lukewarm bath/shower?
Francis Chan relates a lukewarm Christian back to the parable of the seed. He states "I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it." (67)
I agree with the author, going back to Gigglio's analogy of the path I think that for some of us that path does lead to God but we have thorns that can pop up on our path and we need God (The Great Gardener) to come into our lives and take them out and that may take time and some digging to get to the root of the thorn bush.
For the average christian, one who does love God and they do worship Him but they can have things that come up and try and choke that relationship. Nobody is alone in that aspect.

Leftovers;
When one is a lukewarm christian all they can give God is "leftovers" this pisses God off so much. As if being lukewarm wasn't bad enough we give Him the worst we can. By worst I mean we are not giving Him our best. That's all He wants and He deserves it! I mean come on He is the Creator of the World! He made EVERYTHING He is All that IS and once WAS! He should be getting nothing less than our best in every way! The Bible talks about this in Malachi 1:8 when God is saying that what the priests are doing is Evil. They are not sacrificing their best and most pure animals, they are trying to give God animals that have blemishes and in someway are not following the law that He established in Leviticus. He tells them that they are being evil and He wants them to close the temple gates. So in a way God rather us not give Him any form of sacrifice if it is not our best.

To wrap this up; If we are lukewarm (i.e. not living fully for God everyday and striving to learn more about Him and not loving as He loves us) in the end he will vomit us out of His mouth in disgust. And He rather us (be cold) not sacrifice to Him than to give Him something that is less than our best.
And I believe that if we truly love God and accept His love we will not be a lukewarm christian that serves leftovers. We would not be able to because our love is such that we can give nothing but our whole selves and our best. Again this does not mean that I believe that one who truly loves God will have and easy life (see Job) but it will be a better life worth living. He created us so that we may Worship Him.