✝ Daily Encouragement (10/16/24) "The Danger Of Wavering"
Published: Wed, 10/16/24
Updated: Fri, 10/18/24
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(Click refresh or reload for current message) Wednesday, October 16, 2024 
Farm
to Market
Click on photo to enlarge " The Danger Of Wavering" Message
summary:
It
is absolutely
essential that
once we make a
resolute
commitment to
serve and
follow the
Lord we don't
hesitate or
waver. Listen to our message on your audio player. "So Ahab summoned all the Israelites and gathered the prophets at Mount Carmel. Then Elijah approached all the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions?" (1 Kings 18:21).About 50 miles due north of us in the anthracite coal region is a small town named Mount Carmel . Sawmill operator, Albert Bradford, chose Mount Carmel because of its elevation and beautiful setting in the mountains. He decided that it deserved a special name and chose to name it after the holy mountain in Israel. Mount Carmel, in the Bible, is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea toward the southeast. It is referenced most famously in today’s text (1 Kings 18:15-45), where a great contest took place between Elijah, a prophet of God, and all the prophets of Baal. In the daily text Elijah went before the people with a probing question. The question is so fitting for any age and certainly our own. Elijah confronted the apostate, idolatrous northern Kingdom with this probing query, "How long will you waver between two opinions?" Another version words it, " How long will you hesitate between two opinions?"
It
seems the
people of God
had long
forgotten the
final
challenge of
Joshua several
hundred years
earlier, "Choose
you this day
whom you will
serve".
Hesitation is not necessarily a bad thing. When making a large purchase we shouldn't rush right out and buy something. It might be good to hesitate and deliberate. When making a decision regarding our career choice or lifelong mate we certainly want to be very careful and deliberate in our consideration! However it is absolutely essential that once we make a resolute commitment to serve and follow the Lord we don't hesitate or waver. The simple chorus often sung at baptism services says it all,
I
have decided
to follow
Jesus;
I have decided to follow Jesus; I have decided to follow Jesus; No turning back, no turning back. Sadly, the people of Israel wavered in their allegiance to God. Waver means to "vacillate irresolutely between choices". They were essentially double-minded. Many years later the Apostle James wrote, "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways" (James 1:8). Consider these consequences of wavering:
*
The wavering
person is
unstable in
all his ways.
* The wavering person is unproductive and ineffective in his service for Christ. * The wavering person lacks peace and assurance. * The wavering person lacks a steadfast testimony. “How long will you waver between two opinions?" Elijah challenged the people to take a public and private stand - to give single-minded, fervent allegiance to the one true God. The challenge is for us today as well. If we drift along with whatever is popular, pleasant, or easy we will eventually discover that we too are worshiping a false god - the god of this age. Let us be careful to examine our own hearts today, to be sure that we do not waver or hesitate in what we believe nor in our allegiance to the one true God. Be encouraged today, Hebrews 3:13 Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Today's
Suggested
Music and
Supplemental
Resources
"I
Have Decided
To Follow
Jesus
"
Listen
on YouTube
Selah
with an
African beat.
The
last several
messages we
have shared
photos from a
gathering on a
dairy farm.
Brooksyne also
arranged for
my 60th
birthday a
gathering on
the farm of
our longtime
friends Galen
and Nancy
Martin.
 Our gathering place was in a bank barn built in 1832 with three grade level entrances. Galen fired up the old FarmAll and I jumped on for a photo op. Lots of children in the wagon didn't show up due to the darkness in the barn. 
Yesterday I had some business in town and came up behind this truck and trailer hauling from farm to market, It looked like pumpkins, squash and gourds, just what Chris, our Amish neighbor up the road grows. 
Monday
night when we
left the Shady
Maple it was a
bit chilly. We
came upon this
Plain
Mennonite
couple who had
been doing
some shopping.
Brooksyne
noticed the
bolts of
fabric they
were hauling
and suggested
they might be
planning a
wedding since
Good's is a
very nice
Mennonite
owned store
that has a
large fabric
department.
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