“How long will you waver
between two opinions? If the LORD is God
follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him” 1 Kings 18:21.
We all do it. We hope for
this…we dream for that…we pray for ‘it’. Why wouldn’t we since God invites us to? ‘Ask and it will be given to you; seek and
you will find…For everyone who asks receives’ Matthew 7:7-8. But then we do the very thing that shoots our
dream in the foot – we disbelieve! We
spend time on our knees only to stand up and walk away in doubt. Instead of following our faith we follow our
own reasoning of why our dreams will not come true…our Baal.
We all have false gods which we follow on any given day. What does this look like? Following our Baal means following our own
ideas towards making something happen.
Following Baal means giving more thought and worship to the things of
the flesh instead of the Spirit.
Following Baal means praying for something and then following our doubts
of getting it. Let’s face it – we cannot
waver between two opinions of how we see God.
Either our hearts believe that God is God or God is not. Our doubts proclaim that God is not able…is
not trustworthy to deliver the promises of His word…is not who He claims to
be. We can live as Christians being
double-minded and double-hearted. In the
words of James we must know that with every prayer lifted it is in vain if we
do not possess a spirit of expectancy.
While God will not contradict His will for our lives He will give His
full attention to answering our prayers within His will. He would not give us the invitation to ask
for specifics if He did not intend for us to ask. His word says to lift every request and
petition to Him.
James nails it on the head when he penned ‘But when he asked he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts
is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive
anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does’
James 1:5-8. Notice that if we doubt we
are deemed unstable in everything. Our
doubt echoes what is in our heart – how long will we waver?
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