Double Minded
- Shaka Piontkowskie
- Apr 16, 2024
- 2 min read
Nothing is more central than getting clear on our beliefs. What ideas are running our lives? Are they of any benefit to us? Where did they come from? Is there any actual truth behind what we believe? Is it a universal truth that applies across the board or a situational truth?
All of us have contradictory programming that we need to settle accounts with. Attempting to achieve what we desire while believing it is immoral, unnecessary, impossible, somehow harmful to others is a great way to stay stuck exactly where we are. Think of constructive and destructive merging of waves as an example; a constructive wave merges with an initial wave and magnifies it, a destructive wave cancels out the initial wave and leaves nothing. Contradictory beliefs cancel out any positive action, mental or physical, that we would engage in to reach our destination. We can all relate to some of the following:
We want money, but believe it is evil and able to corrupt us.
We want a relationship, but believe men/women are untrustworthy, dating is terrible, not worth the time and effort.
We want more sex, but believe sex is immoral and sinful.
We want a better, more fulfilling work life but we feel guilty for having what others don't have.
We want to work less hours for more money, but don't believe there is any way to do this.
We want to start a business, but don't think any of our ideas will command payment.
We want a different life, but we don't want to exert a reasonable amount of effort to bring this about.
In order to change, we have to examine what's in our head in the way of truthfulness and helpfulness. Many things we believe to be true are simply not, or are situationally true. Maybe we take money as a symbol of greed and decadence when it is really just a tool. Sure, it plays a part in many harms that are done across the globe, but it also has a hand in saving and improving lives as well. To lean solely on the negative application of money would be using a situational truth as a universal truth, which is incorrect and of no use to us in our financial lives. Challenge, dissect the duality in your beliefs and see what interesting stuff comes up.
"But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways." James 1:8
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Matthew 6:24
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