WHY ARE WE DOUBLE MINDED?

Simple understanding double minded man is the man who may “know” he lacks wisdom, and may not be a hypocrite, but then again he may be. In fact, you cannot tell just what he/she is.

A person who has doubts is thinking about two different things at the same time and can't make up his mind about anything. A person who have two job opportunities and be afraid to choose one, causes the person feels like he would miss out on something if he/she only chose one job.

You cannot depend on this double minded man. You ask him to do something and maybe he/she will and maybe he/she will not. 

You cannot be sure of him/her in anything. He/she tells you he/she was a wonderful position, but suddenly you hear he/she has quit. "No man can serve two masters—Ye cannot serve God and mammon" (Matt. 6:24). What they need is the single eye of Matthew 6:22. 

The double minded man is actually dishonest with themselves and others, and appears to use truth and lies in whatever situation to benefit themselves in some way. The person is filled with hypocrisy.

In a Biblical citation a double-minded person is someone who doubts God and His promises. He may ask God for help, but he is unsure if God will come through for him or not. He does not realize that his own doubts about God hinder the fulfillment of his prayers. "That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord!". A double minded man is actually a man who prays to the Lord yet does not trust that the Lord hears and answers his prayers. He prays yet doubts. He can't make up his mind. He is unsettled in his opinions.

The book of Psalm 119:113 I hate double-minded men, but I love your law; and James 1:7 warned us, that man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; Therefore, their loyalty is divided between God and the world, and they are unstable in everything they are being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways

When we read the bible, Joseph, to me, is a perfect example of a person who is single-minded. Even though he was repeatedly tempted, he kept on choosing to give God his thoughts so that God's Life could still freely come forth from his heart. Because of his choice to stay single-minded, Joseph was easily conformed to God's image and everyone who saw him was aware that God was with him.

Also when we read the bible, David's behavior presents a perfect example of a double-minded man. Even though he had God's Life in his heart and had been a man after God's own heart, he nevertheless chose to  follow the needs of his own flesh over what God was prompting him to do.

This behavior is very challenging because Even godly men in the Bible sometimes lapsed into the double - minds situation. John, who baptized Jesus Christ, Yet, after landing in prison, John sent men to Christ asking, "Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?" (Luke 7:19-20).

Why this happened to Him? John the Baptist was human, and we humans begin to doubt when God seems not to respond to our prayers during a crisis. (Luke 7:28).

(James 1:5-8). James describes one who is dubious and indecisive in prayer as "a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."

"You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures" (James 4:3).

(James 1:6-8) “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”.

Hebrews 11:1, 3: “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”

Therefore a double-minded person is restless and confused in his thoughts, his actions and his behavior. Such a person is always in conflict with himself. God will not grant His blessings upon those who are double-minded. As Jesus pointedly declared: “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other” (Matthew 6:24). God and the things of this world are of such opposite natures that it is impossible to love either one completely without hating the other. Those who try to love both will become unstable in all their ways. God is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14) and will not accept a service that is divided with Satan.