“As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.”~ Pas. 32:1
God was David’s heart-throb. But sad to say, all of God’s children do not have this throbbing for Him. There are those, “That pant after the dust of the earth...” (Amos 2:7) Some gasp for Deity, others for dust.
“No man can serve two masters,” says Jesus. We cannot have it both ways. Those who want the best of the two worlds, end up getting the worst of both. As the old Puritan said, “A man cannot love health and poison too.” It would be a strange man indeed that did not desire all his wife’s love, admiration, and devotion. With God, no other love can co-exist; He is a jealous Lover.
Those with a divided heart will never get anywhere with God, for part of them will always be going a different direction from Him. Speaking through Isaiah God says, “This people draw near to me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me.” As the Irish say, “They’re speaking from the teeth out.”
Don’t you think it’s about time we heed God’s admonition in Ezekiel, “Go thee one way or other…” There is no middle ground with God. As the late Dr. Tom Malone Sr. used to say, “There isn’t anything in the middle of the road except a yellow line and dead skunks.”
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