Mixing a little sin with righteousness, say a little corruption with truth…good and evil. You know the bit. The lukewarm life, half in – half out. The bench sitters, the cop-outs, the quitters…(name that tune).
This is dangerous ground friend, and intolerable to our King.
2 Kings 2:33 says,
“They feared the Lord, yet served their own gods…”
What an interesting mix, and still very common today. How many a “God fearin’ folk” have tried to find a way to do both, fear Him and serve their own gods as well. It never works though; Jesus said you can only have one master. At some point every person must choose.
The true fear of God will cause us to put away every other god, and give no place to the devil. The false gods of entertainment, sensuality, materialism and self-righteousness will all have to bow.
Let’s fear the Lord and serve Him only! To fear Him and to serve something else is to serve Him in vain, a terrible deception, and that friends is to tread on very dangerous ground.