There is no middle ground between faith in God and faith in self or faith in God and no faith; such a person is hypocritical and unstable and must repent James What is the purpose of stopping our natural double-mindedness to be transformed as holistic lovers of God?
James uses the word steadfast repeatedly to define a person who is single-minded, citing the example of Job as one who maintained his focus on God throughout his trials James The goal of single-mindedness is to be like Christ in perfect righteousness 1 Cor. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Sin has distorted our awareness of self, others, and God with faulty assumptions regarding our capacities and worth. In seeking to be independent and know good and evil for ourselves, we lost the capacities to love God, love others, and remain in relationship with either. Our hearts and desires are bent inward, loving ourselves and think more highly of ourselves than we ought Rom. But God Eph.
God transforms our desires, orienting our love toward Him 1 John. A transformation of our independence to dependence, double-mindedness to single-mindedness, requires a complete transformation Rom.
We must repent of our self-love and independence and turn toward God. Our focus determines our direction and we become what we love. Ancient Biblical times saw cliques and prejudices, too. Discrimination, ostracizing others—all of the injustices we still battle today. In the verses above, Peter was embarrassed to be sitting with the Gentiles when the Jews showed up.
The company we keep, or choose not to keep, says a lot about the status of our double-mindedness. God places people in our lives purposefully. We exist in our families and communities to look around and love all those within our reach. Double-minded Christians love the Lord. Heartbreaking to think when we are pulled to any shred of double-mindedness we are not loving God the way we want to, intend to, or were made to. To love God is to obey God.
Not in a legalistic fashion, but in a heartfelt way that trusts His will in our lives completely. The Bible makes it clear that if we love the Lord, we will want to keep his commandments. This means following what Scripture tells us to do. James is passionate about our obedience to the Lord, but not in a legalistic, rule-following, check-list to be loved kind of way.
God looks at our hearts. He wants us to wholeheartedly obey Him, because we recognize His love for us and desire for it to be reciprocal. That being said, faith without deeds is useless. When we love God, know Jesus and follow faithfully not perfectly , the evidential deeds obedient way we love the people placed in our lives become part of our everyday lives.
God has made it clear throughout Scripture, that He comes first. Trying to live without placing God first is like walking around with our underwear on outside of our pants. Something would clearly be off. For Christ followers, it may not be as obvious as the underpants example, but the parallel to how we are to be living our lives is serious. How can we be prepared to walk out into the world without letting God prepare our hearts each day?
Putting Him first is literally putting Him first. Angela B. Allen, A person that is spiritually double minded is a person who has not made up his mind to do god's will! A double-minded person will not accept god's advice or believe god's decision or idea. No matter how good the ideas are, ifthe double Danny Gipson, The double-minded Christian is a bundle of mixed messages and contradictions. But you have to rise from your failures and give your best," he said.
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