Friday, February 27, 2015

Thoughts About Being Double Minded

Waking up this morning I had a vision of a parent reaching down to pick up a baby to hold them and feed them from a bottle. It seemed to me that God was saying to me that He was having to feed me milk. I was reminded of a few scriptures when I saw this.

1 Peter 2:1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
3 If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
4 To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,
5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Here we see Peter saying to move away from evil in our speech and actions and to abandon hypocrisy, moving toward being set apart spiritually. When we allow ourselves to move away from what our Father has commanded us to do, we can become hypocrites. How sad it is if we allow ourselves to speak badly of our fellow believers because they see things differently than we do. These things ought not to be. God has provided a way out of these situations.

James 1:2 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
3 Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
4 But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
5 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.
6 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.
7 For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

If we will continue to cry out to our God Yahuah (Lord) and ask Him for the wisdom we need to overcome temptations, He will provide it if we trust Him to do it. In these moments when we sin (if we are not following God’s commands in any way, it is sin) if we believe we cannot seek and obtain forgiveness, then we do not trust God. If we think we have to “get it together” for God to forgive us, then we do not trust God to do the work in us. This should not be misunderstood to mean that we go willy-nilly to God without true repentance and sorrow for our sin. It does mean that if we know in our hearts to do right and do not do it, His law written in our hearts (the new covenant) will convict us of sin. In our sadness for the sin, if we call out to Him, He and He alone will forgive us. We must trust Him to so do.

Prayer
Father, we exalt You. You alone are the One we desire to be our King. We praise and exalt Your name, Yahuah (Lord). Give us today Your overwhelming provision. Forgive us of our sin, whether they be many or few. Heal us from our hurts. Deliver us from the evil that tries to take from us what You alone have given to us. Guide us and keep us in Your ways. We love You. In Yeshua’s (Jesus’) name. Amen.