Right Copy

Although fairly technologically astute, I confess to being copier “challenged.”  I just don’t use a copier enough to be proficient at it!  The office receptionist surely holds her breath when I am copying, and thankfully, is responsive to me-sounds at the copier.  It’s good to always have a backup!

Duplicity of heart never honors Christ!  Zephaniah warned Israel there was nothing good about following Jehovah AND bowing to false gods: “I will cut off them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham.”  Malcham (Molech or Moloch) was the Canaanite god of fire to whom children were sacrificed.  What an atrocious idea that God’s Chosen people could run with “hare and hound!”  Such double-mindedness is widespread even today among Believers.  In 1899, Elisha A. Hoffman posed these questions in a hymn: “Have thy affections been nailed to the cross? Dost thou count all things for Jesus but loss?  Is there no more condemnation for sin? Does Jesus rule in the temple within?  Are all thy pow’rs under Jesus’ control? Does He each moment abide in thy soul?”  In summation, she wrote, “Is thy heart right with God?”  So what about the double-dealing, the hypocrisy, the duplicity heart within us?  Spurgeon wrote, “Christ will be all or nothing.”  A good copier produces copies hard to distinguish from originals.  A Christ-centered heart duplicates the heart of The Father.  That’s the kind of copying I want to be good at!