July 3, 2008

do not doubt

photo by Erin Doyle

Has the Holy Spirit been talking with you?

Are you at the point in your faith

where you have made the right choice,

but the temptations to look back to your old life

are just too great?

Don't be like Lot's wife...

increasing the world's salt supply is not worth it.

"There is a point at which everything becomes simple

and there is no longer any question of choice,

because all you have staked will be lost

if you look back.

Life's point of no return."

- Dag Hammarskjold

"...but he that endureth to the end shall be saved."

- Matthew 10:22 KJV

The Lord allows U-turns

but don't make yourself dizzy

going in circles

because at some point

you may fall.

"Consider it pure joy, my brothers,

whenever you face trials of many kinds,

because you know that the testing of your faith

develops perseverance.

Perseverance must finish its work

so that you may be mature and complete,

not lacking anything.

If any of you lacks wisdom,

he should ask God,

who gives generously to all without finding fault,

and it will be given to him.

But when he asks,

he must believe and not doubt,

because he who doubts

is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.

That man should not think

he will receive anything from the Lord;

he is a double-minded man,

unstable in all he does."

- James 1:2-8 NIV