Double-mindedness
Double-mindedness
is proclaiming that one yearns
for the sweet things of the Word
while all about one’s mouth
are the crumbs
of the world’s delicacies.
Double-mindedness
is knowing what one should do,
but not doing it consistently;
knowing what should be,
but not leaving behind what is;
teaching principles to others
by which one does not live;
praising the beauty of pathways
one has not walked.
Double-mindedness
is starting anew
over and over again
those things
which seem commendable,
but which we have neither
embraced nor surrendered to.
Double-mindedness
wants to be
without dying,
to have without giving,
to serve without sacrificing,
to be known or respected
without Jesus at the core of life.
It cannot be.
(DiamondChips)
2/9/2006
