I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord,
and that swear by Malcham.
Zephaniah 1:5
"SUCH persons thought themselves safe because they were with both parties: they went with the followers of Jehovah, and bowed at the same time to Malcham.
But duplicity is abominable with God, and hypocrisy His soul hateth.
To hold with the hare and run with the hounds, is a dastard's
policy. In the common matters of daily life, a double-minded man is
despised, but in religion he is loathsome to the last degree. The
penalty pronounced in the verse before us is terrible, but it is well
deserved; for how should divine justice spare the sinner, who knows the
right, approves it, and professes to follow it, and all the while loves
the evil, and gives it dominion in his heart?
Q: Thou professest to be a follower of Jesus—dost thou truly love Him?
---To have one foot on the
land of truth, and another on the sea of falsehood, will involve a
terrible fall and a total ruin.
God fills
the whole universe, and hence there is no room for another god; if,
then, He reigns in my heart, there will be no space for another reigning
power.
O Lord,
pardon my sad offence, and unite my heart to fear Thy name."
Charles Spurgeon