Compare Matthew 6:24
James 1:8 says that “a double minded man is unstable in all his ways,” and that seems to be the same message as given in the passages above.
Also Matthew 12:25: “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand.”
The great Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard wrote a little book entitled Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing.
I like that title. It suggests that we’re impure until we’ve really made up our minds.
A character in C. S. Lewis’s fine but perhaps under-appreciated novel Till We Have Faces makes the point:
“When the time comes to you at which you will be forced at last to utter the speech which has lain at the center of your soul for years, which you have, all that time, idiot-like, been saying over and over, you’ll not talk about the joy of words. I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer. Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?”
Posted from Victoria, British Columbia
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