Forward 2/3/08

Let's keep moving forward with the fourth action of humility in James 4.6-10


4. Not Double Minded


This is the second time James talks about being double-minded in his letter. The first one suggests that a double-minded person must not assume that he will receive anything from God. In that same context he salutes those who ask for wisdom--noting that when we ask, God gives us wisdom.


Being double-minded, then, is knowing what God wants us to do, but not knowing whether or not we want to follow that wisdom. Pride allows us to consider possibilities outside God's wisdom. Pride says, "I may come up with a better answer than God's to this situation." Pride may not even ask God for wisdom, but get stuck between options of its own making.


Humility seeks God's wisdom and then follows it. That's the idea of not being double-minded. Once we know what God says, we do it. We don't keep the debate running in our minds.


My prayer is that God will reveal to me any area where I'm being double-minded--trying to follow his wisdom and my own at the same time.