Bible Math

No, I’m not talking about how many animals went onto the ark.  I’m not talking about how to calculate the dimensions of the tabernacle.  Interesting questions, kinda confusing (if you're already confused, don't worry about it right now, you can ask an older and wiser Christian about it later), but not what I'm talking about here.  I’m talking about one word: ‘undivided.’ 

‘Undivided,’ very simply, means ‘not divided.’   To divide something (divide, as in division—see, there’s the math I was talking about) is to break it up or separate it into pieces.  The Bible says that it’s good to live in “undivided devotion to the Lord” (1 Corinthians 7:35).  To live in “undivided devotion” means to live a life where we are not splitting our devotion into different areas.  In other words, it’s not okay with God for us to give Him only a part of our devotion or to give it only part of the time.  He desires, and deserves, nothing less than all of us.  

Jesus said that you are supposed to love God with "all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind" (Matt 22:37).  God desires, and deserves, nothing less than all of us.  Didn't I already say that? 

In the Book of Revelation, Jesus speaks to a church and He tells them that they it’s not okay for them to remain comfortably in the middle.  He says,

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were

either one or the other!  So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot

nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. (Rev 3:15-16)

There's no such thing as half-way with God.  You can't be a sometimes-Christian.  Either you believe or you don't.  And if you believe then your actions, the way you live your life, should reflect that.  Cause if you don't believe, it's a guarantee that your actions, the way you live your life, will reflect that.

My question for you—just as it has been the question that I've been asking myself—is whether or not you are living in "undivided devotion"  You and God know the answer.