"Well, I just don’t know what to do about it. I’m of two minds."

"Have you prayed about it?"

"Why, yes. But I just don’t know what to do."

Sound familiar? I have never connected the statement ‘I’m of two minds’ to James 1:6-8 until recently. "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. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways"

(NKJV). These verses have always troubled me, although I couldn’t exactly say why. Maybe I just don’t like to admit that I am unstable more times than I even realize. These verses have been running circles in my mind for a week. Am I double-minded? No, I trust God. Don’t I?

We, as Christians, know that all things work to our good. Yet we continue to pray to the Lord, not with confidence but with a question mark. We have a bill that has to be paid with no means in which to pay it. "Lord, I don’t know how I’m going to take care of this. Please help me?" Yet, all the while, our mind is devising its own answer. "Well, if God doesn’t answer by then, I’ll just have to do this or that." Or what about when sickness invades our homes and the diagnosis is unclear. We pray to the Lord that healing will come, yet we believe the doctors more than God. "The doctor says there is no hope." We resign ourselves to the fate science has dictated and don’t stop to trust that it is God’s will that says, "You are healed."

We are of ‘two-minds’ (double-minded) more than we would like to admit. However, we can overcome being double-minded and unstable. It is Satan who wants to destroy and rob our peace. Trusting God is a choice – a way of life. When we pray, we have to know in our hearts that God’s way is best, no matter the answer. We can’t be of two-minds and trust God at the same time. We must be single-minded, rooted in the knowledge God only wants the best for us; knowing His promises are true. To be double minded simply means we are not completely convinced God’s way is what is best for us. Single minded simply means we trust God with our lives … and His way is always the best.