A Double-Minded Man

by David Fleming

Have you ever been of two opinions about a given topic? If so, you found you could resolve this indecision through searching out information to make a solid choice or decision.

However, some people by choice or lack of ability seem to live a lifestyle of non-choice; of indecision. In the religious realm, a person of this attitude may cling to religion but not let go of a worldly life. In James 1:8 we are told: "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways" (KJV).

If we would serve God, we must serve Him! Can you imagine a job in which employees go to work, do nothing, and go home? Now imagine a church family where everyone goes to church services, does nothing (else) and goes home. Do you suppose this pleases God?

"Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world." James 1:21-27 NKJV.

James says it best, let's look into God's word and let our lives mirror it; lest we be "double-minded", as is the world.