HALF-HEARTED
Today's reading: 2 Chronicles 25-28

"Amaziah did what was pleasing in the Lord's sight, but not wholeheartedly." 2 Chronicles 25:2 NLT


Half-hearted service. You've experienced it, haven't you? The help you received from someone doing it because they had to versus someone truly serving you from the heart. The gift given out of duty versus the gift given out of love.

Are you serving half-heartedly? Three-quarter-heartedly? Maybe you're serving at a 99%? Is what you're doing for the Lord becoming spite-filled and heartless? Are you mumbling and grumbling more than praising? Are you drawing folks into service--or driving them away because of your attitude?

What's best? Serving, just to get it done or stepping aside and allowing someone who can do it wholeheartedly to take over? Oh, I know--one never hears the suggestion to 'quit' inside the walls of the church, but are our half-hearted attempts what is keeping the Church from exploding like fireworks in this dark world?

What if Christ had died for 'most' of our sins? What if He had given Himself for a majority of the population? Where would we be?