A Man of Two Minds....

What happens when a man feels called by God, but does not embrace the responsibility, character and standards required in a place ministerial service? I have an answer, a double minded faith (double standard ethics & morality). Severed down the middle is his ambition to serve God while serving himself. You cant have both, its got to be one or the other. There is a real distinction between our ambition and God's. When someone claims they serve God and the fruit of their life is contrary to what they say, a problem arises. A man's sin will find him out and he will be left with one of two options, repent and be humbled or harden up with pride and continue onward in self destruction.

James 1: 1-9


1 JAMES, A servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes scattered abroad [among the Gentiles in the dispersion]: Greetings ([a]rejoice)!
2Consider it wholly joyful, my brethren, whenever you are enveloped in or encounter trials of any sort or fall into various temptations.
3Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience.
4But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing.
5If any of you is deficient in wisdom, let him ask of [b]the giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be given him.
6Only it must be in faith that he asks with no wavering (no hesitating, no doubting). For the one who wavers (hesitates, doubts) is like the billowing surge out at sea that is blown hither and thither and tossed by the wind.
7For truly, let not such a person imagine that he will receive anything [he asks for] from the Lord,
8[For being as he is] a man of two minds (hesitating, dubious, irresolute), [he is] unstable and unreliable and uncertain about everything [he thinks, feels, decides].
9Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his elevation [as a Christian, called to the true riches and to be an heir of God],

Food for thought,

Chaplain Jeremy