I can be so noncommittal about some things while zealously fervent about others. I generally don’t care what we have for dinner, but don’t you dare get in the way of me watching my favorite team. I may not mind if someone ignores me, but if I am saying something important you had better listen, even if you disagree. I do not fixate on the clothes I wear, but other people are not allowed to harm my loved ones.
On the small decisions, it is okay to be wishy-washy. However, on life’s big decisions we should be diligent to seek good answers. If we’re buying a house, we should get wise counsel and do our research.
However, it is not enough to just make informed wise decisions. We must then take definitive action in line with those decisions. In the book of Revelation, Jesus criticized and warned the church in Laodicea for being wishy-washy in their faith. He said, “I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent.”
This church, like some of us, had become complacent and thought that they did not need God. They considered themselves well off and therefore lost their love for God. Jesus, however, warned them that they were in great danger. They needed to repent of their pride and wishy-washy nature. If they did that, Jesus promised to give them clothes of righteousness and remove their sins.
We also need to repent of wishy-washy faith and pride. We must ask God to inspire within us a passionate love of God and a dependent, but active faith.
Reluctant Retiree 