“A double minded man is unstable in all his
ways.” James
1:8
Reuben was Joseph’s first born
and thus had his father’s favor, and yet Reuben squandered such privileges and
blessings by his inability to garner truth and stand on it. While he saved his
father’s life against his brother’s and even showed great love for his father
by offering his own son as a guarantee for Benjamin’s life, he was unable to
stand against a crowd, in spite of his good intentions. His instability made
him hard to trust. He had both private and public values, but these
contradicted each other. Many Christians
stand unstable like Reuben and are double minded in their convictions. Many
Christians are like water, except when frozen, have no stable shape of its own;
it always shapes itself to its container or environment it’s exposed to. Compromise has a way of destroying
convictions, and without truthful convictions life can quickly become a ruse.
We must strive to maintain consistency in our convictions towards truth in both
our public and private lives. Jacob describe his own son as “…unstable as water” (Gen 49:4);
is that how your Heavenly Father sees you?
HSAY…Todd
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