A double-minded person is one who is restless, confused in his thoughts, actions, and behavior. Such a person is always in conflict with himself. One torn by such inner conflict can never lean with confidence on God and His gracious promises. He has no defined direction and as a result doesn’t get anywhere. Such a person is “unstable in all he does,” (James 1:6–8). The term unstable is similar to a drunken man unable to walk a straight line, swaying one way, then another. One part of his mind is sure of something, while the other part doubts. Like the “pushmi-pullyu” of the Dr. Doolittle stories, an animal with a head at either end of its body and which was constantly trying to walk in two directions at once. That is the double-minded man.
Jesus declared, “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other” (Matthew 6:24). You cannot serve God and wealth. Wealth you ask? Yes wealth, their salary and benefits.
Such are now and have been the political leaders, inclusive the current leaders. They proclaim to be of God yet violate the very Canon of their Church.
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