Psalms 119:97-99 “Oh, how I love Your law! It is my meditation all the day. (98) You, through Your commandments, make me wiser than my enemies; For they are ever with me. (99) I have more understanding than all my teachers, For Your testimonies are my meditation.”
The above quoted passage of scripture is a prophetic statement made by David the prophet under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And so this passage is actually a record of our Lord’s words to the Father when He walked in the flesh. What this passage reveals to us is that our Lord Jesus continually meditated on God’s word when He was on the earth. And so if the Lord Jesus meditated on God’s word throughout the day then we should learn to follow His example, if we are ever going to become fully convinced in our minds about the reality and truth of God’s word, for it is only then that we will begin to experience the reality of God’s power being made manifest in our lives.
James 1:6-8 “But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. (7) For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; (8) he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.”
We have seen thus far that unless we become fully convinced in our minds that what God says on any given subject is true, we will never be able to exercise our faith in that word. The apostle James in the above quoted passage of scripture refers to the saint that doubts the reality of God’s word, as being double-minded. So what does it mean to be double-minded? For any given subject there are always two opposing truths, the first truth is the reality which this world experiences i.e. that which is seen and experienced in this life. The second truth however is the reality of God’s word, which declares the exact opposite to the first truth and although it is not seen in this life, it nevertheless has the potential to be both seen and experienced in this life. Saints who doubt look at both truths and therefore become double-minded, for one day they will declare that God’s word is real but the next day they will look at what they can see and what they are experiencing and declare that that which is seen is real. The key to overcoming double-mindedness is to become single-minded. So what does it mean to be single-minded? To become single-minded is to focus your thoughts on one truth to the exclusion of the other. And so Christians that want to experience the power of God being made manifest in their lives need to focus their thoughts on the truth of God’s word, to the complete exclusion of that which is seen and experienced in this life. That does not mean that we deny the reality of the first truth, it just means that we choose to ignore it and only focus on the second truth.
Michael E.B. Maher
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