Decisions, Decisions

Continual limping will eventually impair otherwise healthy parts of the body as it favors the weak area. When crutches are needed, the legs are dependent on the support. But if you lift both feet, the legs dangle, and you go nowhere. By staying in that position, the legs grow weaker and weaker. You must decide how and where to walk, step carefully, and begin walking towards your destination.

In your Christian walk, you must know where you stand as a believer because areas of uncertainty leave room for weakness. Spiritual weakness can cause a limp or standstill in decision-making. Just as physical limping, spiritual limping has the same destructive effect and can leave you defenseless when facing the enemy. And dangling with decisions of where to stand biblically leaves room for the uncertainty that gains a foothold, and weakness settles in. You are either for God or against Him.

Elijah asked the wayward Israelites, ". . . How long halt ye between two opinions" (1 Kings 18:21a)—how long would they be indecisive? He prayed to God that day for them to know the only true God: God sent fire from heaven that consumed the altar's sacrifice, wood, stones, the trench's water around it, and its dust. The people fell on their faces proclaiming, "The Lord He is the God, the Lord He is the God" (v. 39).

Jesus said you couldn't serve two masters simultaneously; you will be faithful to only one (Matthew 6:24). Are you hobbling or at a standstill between two masters? You cannot serve God and love the world.