Monday, October 19, 2009

Wavering faith is counterproductive

James 1:6-8 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind. For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord, being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways (NASB).

Wavering faith is counterproductive. It shows to us and others there are deficiencies present, here, in this place. What do I mean? Well, wavering means we are not sold on either side of an issue; we cannot play Switzerland, even they had to choose. We are not sure of what we are doing, or seeing; we are just not convinced. See, when you are convince of something, we do not waver, doubt or second-guess ourself about the issue, we know, what we knew and move forward on this legitimacy It is the equivalent to driving drunk; you cannot stay in your lane and are a danger to anyone near your vehicle because of the weaving, and drifting in the other lanes without indication or notification. Each endeavor we try to undertake, does not matter what it is, we approach with trepidation, as you stand on a faith that is foundationless. As our aptitude is formed by our attitude in life, we never achieve our own greatest because we do not ‘get it’. Because even if everyone else sees how great you are, until you believe it, we waver. We see it depicted in our lives…trying to be everyone’s friends, instead of loving them with the godly love and moving on…we try to make everyone happy and like us, impossible task (Christ was not liked by all, why should we be)...we will not accept no, or say no to anyone, even when we know, we will not do what is asked (Christ illustrated over and over again, you have to choose)….we try to be invisible and not be notice to not be challenged or stretched..We never want to choose between anything and/or anyone, we desire to have it all, but life is nothing like that. Because the fundamental elements of God’s basic math requires an approach that is foreign as it is illogical of our elementary understanding of things…In God logic we must subtract to add…we must divide to multiply…and we must give up, to have the abundant life. Therefore, the wavering keeps us in the undecided category where there is no lost, but definitely no gain…we all desire the gain, and no one likes to an indecisive person…neither does God…it is counterproductive… For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord…

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