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"Their heart is divided!" Hosea 10:2

This is a very serious charge! For God demands the whole heart, and His people profess to surrender it!

But have we not reason to fear that many are guilty on this point? Their heart appears to be divided . . .
between God—and the world;
between holiness—and sin;
between truth—and error;
between Christ—and self!

What are the symptoms of a divided heart?
Habitual cleaving to earth.
Being satisfied with a mere form of godliness.
Backwardness to examine ourselves.
A dislike to plain, soul-searching preaching.
Putting eternal things far away.

Beloved, how is it with you?

God rejects half a heart! He will have all—or none!

Do you fear on this point? There is a remedy:
Thoroughly examine your heart.
Condemn whatever you detect amiss in it.
Take your divided heart to Jesus—and beseech Him to heal it.
Expose it to the keen edge of God's Word.
Endeavour to keep up a constant sense of the presence of God.
Converse much with eternal realities.

As your heart is—so will your life be; so will your comfort and peace be.

"I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the Lord. They will be My people, and I will be their God—because they will return to Me with their whole heart." Jeremiah 24:7

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