Determined Mind

Determined Mind
But when he asks [of God] 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 1:6-8 NIV

When God calls us to be His, He never accepts half. He calls for the whole. Maybe God calls for the whole person to try and remove their inner conflict, the indecisiveness that can reside in the heart of His people? Or, maybe the Lord knows that having half is like having nothing at all.

Can a person stand next to God and all the while envy what the world has? He or she must abandon one or fully commit to the other. If a person will find genuine godly peace, he or she must defy the ways of this world and become a stranger in a strange land, that is, someone who is in the world, but no longer of the world (John 15:19). When we put on the salvation of Christ, we release our hold on this place and become citizens of God’s Kingdom. We become His ambassadors in this world.

The double-minded person will never be able to fully understand God’s righteousness, judgment and salvation. But the fully committed will have the ability to see and understand these things and so much more. The determined mind will always remember that they rest in hands that will never let them slip away (John 10:27-28). They will hear and obey the Spirit and bring Christ to others with freedom and assurance in God. We have assurance that He will reign in the hearts and minds of the elect forever. And this is but one of the things a determined mind seeks, the reign of God in the world, but also for God to reign in our minds and in the whole of our being.