September 14
A profound principle for achieving, for being, is seeing the goal with a single eye. In James 1:8 the Lord’s brother reminds us that “a double minded man is unstable in all his ways.” Jesus said, “As you cannot serve two master, for you will love the one and hate the other, neither can you serve God and mammon” Luke 16:13.
The psalmist’s prayer in Psalm 86:11 establishes this principle very succinctly, “Teach me Your way, Lord, and I will live by Your truth. Give me an undivided mind to fear Your name.” That undeniable need for consistency is affirmed again and again in the scriptures.
The Lord desires that His people reap the benefit of knowledge—knowledge of who He is and how to approach Him effectively. Just as potentates of old had to be approached in a prescribed manner, so we have a way that leads most directly to the realization of our objectives in prayer.
God does not want us fumbling along unproductive paths, through the thicket of doubt, through the desert of despair, along the trail of deception. He wants us to know how to reach Him with the cries of our heart, and that direct road is through unwavering faith that springs from a mind surrendered to and rooted in His Truth…
…And a heart filled with a profound awareness of His love that compelled Him to pay such a great price for our salvation, His “unspeakable gift,” II Corinthians 9:15.
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