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HELEN SANDERS
7-29-2022
DOUBLEMINDED
Have you ever been on a teeter totter? One minute you are up and the other minute you are down. The most dangerous part of a teeter totter is if one is on the downside, and you are on the upside and the person on the downside gets off and lets you crash to the ground.
In James chapter 1 the Lord’s brother, who authored the book of James, talks about being doubleminded. He admonishes us in verse 5 with, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.” God will answer our questions about anything we take to Him according to this verse. If you ask God, he will not yell at you for asking. He promises to give wisdom to all that ask.
The key is to ask God in faith believing He will guide you to truth. Verse 6 says, “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.”
When we ask God for wisdom, we must believe that He will give it to us. We must have that kind of faith to believe God will give it to us. If we are afraid of what He will say, it would be like being on the top of that teeter totter and someone gets off. You will crash. We must trust God through his word that He is there for us no matter what the circumstances.
Verse 7 tells us even more. “For let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord.” If you teeter totter in your faith, you can be assured that you will not receive anything from God. We must be like the one on the top of the teeter totter, always confident that God is with us even if we go to the downside and that He will not let us crash. He is there to bring us back up. Verse 8 tells us something very important, “A doubleminded man is unstable in all his ways.”
Someone that is up and down in their walk with God is doubleminded. One minute they believe and the next minute they doubt. They are controlled by what they see instead of what God promises.
You could put this another way. They are always on the fence, not on one side of a matter or the other. They stay there to be comfortable. They stay there so people will not think wrong of them if they give an opinion contrary to theirs. They are doubleminded, and lukewarm in their walk.
God wants to give us wisdom for all circumstances, but it will not be found in any of the world’s means. It will not come from what a doctor says, or a lawyer says, or what a teacher says, or anyone else if it does not line up with God says. We need to immerse ourselves daily in reading the word. This is what keeps us on top my friends. You will never be doubleminded if you go with faith in God’s word.
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