Meditate. Thinking about fear or doubt?
Your life shall hang in doubt before you;
you shall fear day and night, and have no assurance of life. Deuteronomy
28:66 NKJV
Is doubt related to fear? When
you doubt are you like a wave on the lake? Think about those waves Jesus
encountered when He was in the storm…and walked on the water. Huge waves
tossing to and fro. James suggests that doubt is shows disloyalty like the
waves tossing one about.
If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will
give it to you. He will not rebuke you for asking. But when you ask him, be
sure that your faith is in God alone. Do not waver, for a person with divided
loyalty is as unsettled as a wave of the sea that is blown and tossed by the
wind. Such people should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Their loyalty
is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they
do.
James
1:5-8
The Amplified version expands the direction
and explains…no hesitating, no doubting.
5 If any of you is
deficient in wisdom, let him ask of [a]the
giving God [Who gives] to everyone liberally and ungrudgingly, without reproaching or faultfinding, and it will be
given him. 6 Only 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. 7 For
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].
James 1:5-8
Amplified.
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| Tossed about on waves of the sea. Pacific Ocean on the Oregon Coast. |
The one who doubts…won’t get what he asks of
the Lord—according to this scripture. But God is wise. He recognizes a person’s
heart and mind…and if they are double minded it shows. Unstable. Unreliable.
Uncertain. Not words that anyone wants to have someone use to describe them. But
really when someone doubts, there is a lack of faith, a fear that God cannot do
what is asked of Him. Fear. There it is. Fear that God cannot be trusted—but if
you can’t trust God who can you trust?
Your
life shall hang in doubt before you; you shall fear day and night, and have no
assurance of life. If someone doesn’t believe in God’s power…doesn’t trust
God, then they won’t have the assurance of salvation—no assurance of life—everlasting
life. Where do you stand…doubting or believing?
Prayer
~ Lord, as You said to Your friends in the Upper Room after Your resurrection, "Why are you
frightened?" You asked. "Why are your hearts filled with doubt?"
From Luke 24:38. Please give us wisdom. Take doubt away from our hearts and as well as filling us with Your wisdom,
strength, and peace during this time of uncertainty. Thank You for making in
difference in our lives.
Verse
of Salvation ~ And through your faith, God is protecting you by his power until
you receive this salvation, which is ready to be revealed on the last day for
all to see. 1 Peter 1:5
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