Double-Mindedness & Instability (TMF:1891)

Monday, July 11, 2022
Peace to Live By: Double-Mindedness & Instability (TMF:1891) - Daniel Litton
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       A person who isn’t completely surrendered to a situation is double-minded and unstable. That’s what is so great about surrender. When we go to God in prayer, we what? We surrender whatever it is. Don’t believe me? Peter said it, remember? 1 Peter 5:6-8, “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. Be sober-minded; be watchful” (ESV). That’s how we humble ourselves before God: surrender. Then Peter tells us our answer, our wisdom, our release from the trial, it what? It comes at the proper time. At that time God exalts us out of it. So, instead of being double-minded, we are sober-minded. Do you see? Sober-mindedness is the opposite of double-mindedness. When we are sober-minded we aren’t drunken with this or that idea, or trying to go in this and then that direction. Rather, we are “watchful” for our answer to come.