May 18, 2011

• Half a heart, half a heart (How long? If the LORD is God, follow Him)

  
  I Kings 18:20 So Ahab sent for all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together on Mount Carmel. 21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.” But the people answered him not a word.

  Half a heart, half a heart
  How long will you waver
  How long will you limp
  How long will you falter
  How can you give your Savior
  Half a heart, half a heart

  Is it a thing trivial
  To provoke the God of Israel
  To provoke the heart of His glory
  He is broken and crushed
  By your heart whorish

  If your heart be whole
  Turn from your dead idols
  Follow Christ and Christ alone
  Worship the true and living God
  If the Lord be your God
  Is the Lord your God?

  Wandering eye, wandering eye
  Turn away from sparkling wine
  Taste not a sip of its smooth lies
  Old serpent prowls to beguile
  Bite and sting you like a viper
  Wandering eye, wandering eye

  Is it a thing trivial
  To provoke the God of Israel
  To provoke the eyes of His glory
  He is broken and crushed
  By your eyes whorish

  If your eye be single
  Turn from your dead idols
  With sin you must not mingle
  Worship the true and living God
  If the Lord be your God
  Is the Lord your God?

  Divided mind, divided mind
  O, forget your own people
  Leave your father's house
  Hold fast to the Beloved
  Are you not Christ's spouse
  Divided mind, divided mind

  Is it a thing trivial
  To provoke the God of Israel
  To provoke the mind of His glory
  He is broken and crushed
  By your mind whorish

  If your mind be united
  Turn from your dead idols
  Drink only of the one true Vine
  Worship the true and living God
  If the Lord be your God
  Is the Lord your God?

  Heavy ear, heavy ear
  Consider whose you are
  Look upon Christ's scars
  Listen, hear, O, daughter
  Cleave and cling to no other
  Heavy ear, heavy ear

  Is it a thing trivial
  To provoke the God of Israel
  To provoke the ears of His glory?
  He is broken and crushed
  By your ears whorish

  If your ear be opened
  Turn from your dead idols
  To Christ alone your knees must bend
  Worship the true and living God
  If the Lord be your God
  Is the Lord your God?

  And Elijah came to all the people, and said, “How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him.”
  
  
  Proverbs 23
  30 Those who linger long at the wine,
        Those who go in search of mixed wine.
  31 Do not look on the wine when it is red,
        When it sparkles in the cup,
        When it swirls around smoothly;
  32 At the last it bites like a serpent,
        And stings like a viper.
  33 Your eyes will see strange things,
        And your heart will utter perverse things.
  
  
  Matthew 6:24 No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

  
  Ezekiel 6:8 Yet I will leave a remnant, so that you may have some who escape the sword among the nations, when you are scattered through the countries. 9 Then those of you who escape will remember Me among the nations where they are carried captive, because I was crushed by their adulterous heart which has departed from Me, and by their eyes which play the harlot after their idols; they will loathe themselves for the evils which they committed in all their abominations. 10 And they shall know that I am the LORD; I have not said in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.

  Give us a heart to know You, that You are the LORD; and we shall be You people, and You shall be our God, for we shall return to You with our whole heart. (Jeremiah 24:7, rewritten as a prayer)

  Psalms 45
  10 Listen, O daughter,
           Consider and incline your ear;
           Forget your own people also, and your father’s house;
  
  11 So the King will greatly desire your beauty;
           Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
  
  
  I Thessalonians 1:9 For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God.

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  Scripture taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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