Cagle Community Church Pastor: Darrell Nance

pastor's devotional

DECISION

“And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.”

I Kings 18:21 KJV

     It is sometimes needful to “halt between two opinions”, if the proper course of action is not quite clear, but when the right and wrong stands out in naked reality, indecision becomes sin. It is with spiritual things, as with the temporal, the wavering and the lukewarm cannot succeed. The young man who cannot make up his mind as to what business he should follow is in danger of being in ruin. In religion, as in politics, no progress can be made, no definite testimony can be given, so long as the mind is not clear, and the will emphatic. In these, and other matters, a halting man is a useless man—worse than useless, for he is a stumbling block to others. The call today is the same as on Mount Carmel: the call to instant decision.