Divided Loyalty

To try to live a godly life with one foot firmly planted in the self-centered lifestyle of the world is Laodician--it is to be spiritually proud and to become spiritually blind. I cannot serve two masters. Divided loyalty is disloyalty. Disloyalty is the death of lovingkindness, smothering the love I need to lavish on my neighbor in His place. And smothering the intimacy He wants me to have with Him. Sobering is it not, to think that my "spirituality" can make me an object of God's discipline? He pleads with us, "Behold I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him, and will dine with him, and he with Me." Have you placed the idol of worldly approval and worldly acceptance in the center of your heart? Have you "locked out" His presence in the heart you claimed to have given to Him? "Be zealous, therefore, and repent."