This week’s #scripturesong is 1 Kings‬ ‭18:21‬ ‭NIV‬‬:

“Elijah went before the people and said, ‘How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.’ But the people said nothing.”

How long will we have one foot in the world and one foot in the will of God? How long will we “waver” (to move unsteadily back and forth) in our allegiance to Him? If you claim to be a follower of Christ, you must be hot or cold. We’re either all IN for God or all OUT. There’s no in between. No neutrality.

Jesus said to the church of Laodicea in Revelation 3:15-16: “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”

He also said in Matthew 12:30, “Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters.”

As believers, we cannot be lukewarm in our faith. We can’t just sleep around on Saturday night and go to church on Sunday thinking we’re totally fine…We can’t just live in homosexuality on the side and think God approves of that lifestyle. We can’t be addicted to pornography, drugs, or alcohol and act like it’s all good. We can’t just pick and choose what we like and don’t like from the Bible.

“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua‬ ‭24:14-15‬ ‭