A Single Eye

January 18

In James 1:8 we are told, “A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” Jesus Himself said in Luke 16:13, “No man can serve two masters…” We know from our own experience the veracity of these assertions. Most of us have at some time, in some situation, attempted to juggle two competing interests.

Whether those interests regarded working two jobs to meet the demands of a troubled economy and finding ourselves drained from the effort, or whether they involved an attempt to maintain more than one ‘serious’ romantic interest at the same time, we discovered that the exercise could not be successfully maintained indefinitely.

The necessity to be steadfast is certainly evident in the spiritual realm. We cannot vacillate between two positions if we are to grow in spiritual maturity. We cannot profess faith in Christ while harboring doubt. We cannot affirm that we are Christian if we deny Biblical doctrine. We cannot, as Jesus said, serve two positions.

The prophet says in Isaiah 26:3, “You will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is anchored steadfast in Your truth, because he trusts You.” When we have resolved the matter of trusting the Lord once and for all in our own mind, it is then that we can go forward with a single eye into any challenges the future may hurl our way.