Halting Between Two Opinions

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1 Kings 18: 21
And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the Lord be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

This verse stood out so much to me while reading this chapter of 1st Kings. A little background story- chapter 18 of Kings tells of Elijah confronting the King and people of Israel about their complete betrayal and rejection of God, so much so that he professed to be the only prophet of God left, while the people worshipped Baalim and his prophets were four hundred and fifty. You can just feel the heart of the Father as He confronted the people whom He loved so much. They left Him to go follow another god after all that He had done for them. God was heartbroken, to say the least.

But as I read it the Lord began to minister to me and I saw how we the church still do this to Him today. Our idol may not be proclaiming another God, oh no, it is far subtler than that. Our gods have become our emotions, our wants, our desires, our ideas, our families, relationships and the list goes on. So, I guess I stand here as Elijah saying thus saith the Lord, “How long halt ye between two opinions?” How long are we going to move back and forth between God and what we want? How long are we going to try to serve two masters, when the truth is, God has given us so much.

At salvation we literally died (Romans 6). That means that all our desires, wants, lusts, everything ceased to exist from that point (Gal 5:24) i.e. The old you is no more! Christ then cleansed our souls and placed it in Himself then cleansed the very bodies we were in and got in it. Now it is Christ who is living through us LITERALLY! (Gal 2:20)

You may ask what does that have to do with anything? Well you see, a great part of why we as Sons still struggle in our walk is because we either do not understand what really took place at salvation, or we walk in unbelief. I pray whichever state you may find yourself that the Lord extend His grace to you even now and cause you to see. See that Jesus Christ is now living in you. Now all that God requires of you is that you rest and allow Christ to live. Don’t take up the things of this world or be deceived by it. Count it all dung and set your focus solely on the Father. He loves you so much and He is just crying out to us His children to separate ourselves from this world and submerge ourselves in Him. And just as He was faithful to confront Israel and show Himself to them once more and gave them a chance to repent, He is doing the same thing now with us.

I thank the Lord for confronting me about my own lust and wantonness recently. It would have destroyed me if I didn’t let it go. Which is why I knew I had to allow Christ to write this post to save someone out there too.

You may find yourself halting between two opinions and are wondering how can you let it go and go on in the Spirit. Well I dare say that it is quite simple. Just AGREE WITH GOD. There. I said it. All it takes is a true heart of repentance that turns back to God and agrees to let Him live from now on. Remember, the power to live holy lies in Him, not you and He is faithful and just to forgive and restore.

I love you, 

Mo


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