Israel
and Judah had fallen away from God. Their attempts at reaching out to God were
feeble at best. They wanted all of what the world had to offer and yet retain a
semblance of their religious identity. God was an afterthought in their lives
rather than a forethought. God was turned to only in times of great distress
and danger. Sincerity was not their strong suit.
Many of
us are just like that today. We too, lack sincerity in our walk with God. We
too want to have what the world offers and still be identified as followers of
Christ. We too give lip service to Christ and not heart service. There is a shallowness
in the life of the Church today that is downright scary. We are easily worked
up emotionally and think that is godliness. We become so caught up in ourselves
that we fail to move on to the deeper life of holiness. We accept with our
minds holiness of living, but not with our hearts. We fail to sincerely pursue
godliness in our thinking. We treat living in Christ as if it doesn’t really
matter. We think that a “profession of
faith” at some time in our lives will automatically get us into heaven.
We think
that it is enough to “worship” the Lord an hour or two out of our week. We
think that as long as we put forth some effort to be Christ-like that it is
good enough. We think that holiness is an option, not a necessity, in our
lives.
I wonder
what the Lord thinks about the way we think and live.
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