Revival in Laodicea

Revelation 3:18 KJV
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
The church at Laodicea was surely a mess. But the blessing of the passage is that there is as much opportunity for repentance and revival there as in any of the churches Jesus addressed. Jesus gave them three actions toward revival.

Lay up treasures in heaven
Redeem the things that this world has and count them but loss for the things that you can lay up in glory instead. Too much of today's Christian culture is geared toward success and riches and in this life. There is in us the idea that if we are successful Christians today we must have success awaiting us in heaven. We are poor (in eternal things) and do not know it.

Pursue white raiment
Most think this to mean purity and holiness. Nothing in this world is so valuable as to be worth losing holiness with God for. When we must fudge a little in godliness and purity and righteousness to obtain what we desire of this world we have paid too high a price. Rather be poor in this world and blind in this world and naked in this world's things if through that we might wear the white raiment of purity.

Take care of your spiritual eyes.
There is an entire world of spiritual life going on that we are unable to see. Angels and principalities operate invisibly around us at all times. Like we can't see those angels and their activities, we are prone to be blind to other spiritual things. The lost man is blind to the saving truth of the Gospel. The worldly man is blind to the heavenly riches he is forsaking. And the Christian's spiritual eyesight is constantly in danger of being compromised by the lures of this world. Care must be taken to improve our spiritual eyesight through the graces of Jesus Christ.

In all three the word buy seems important. The word means to go to market. In other words this gold tried in the fire, this white raiment and this eye salve will not come to us accidentally. We are going to have to apply means. We are going to have to put on our shoes and exercise ourselves in order to have them. They cannot be purchased in our own merits. They must come to us through the grace of Christ. But neither will they come if we will not seek them.