Waffling

I am a decision maker, at least most of the time.  There are times when I need to make big decisions, especially those about the direction of the church, that I pause on, but most of the time, "just make up your mind one way or the other."  I don't like waffling.  I don't like when other people wander from one point to the other wondering what to do. Make a decision and put your all into it. 
That is appropriate with your salvation.  Either give your life to the Lord and live for Him or don't.  The way we have sold salvation with a "raise your hand when no one is looking" kind of philosophy has come back home to take root.  We have people on the church rolls that are not genuinely saved but they raised their hand when no one was looking and they went on with the rest of their life with no change while everyone was looking.  That is not true salvation and it causes a lot of doubts about salvation for a lot of Christians or pseudo-Christians.  These doubts are some that you just don't HAVE to have.  2 Peter 1 talks about the building up of your faith by walking with the Lord.  Then he says in v. 10- Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to make your calling and election sure, for if you practice these qualities you will never fail. You ought to be sure of your salvation and if you live for the Lord and work out your salvation and build your faith, you will be.  The process is described in v. 5-7 of the same chapter. It is about taking that early, immature faith and building virtue on it, in other words, living it out.  Once you are living it, you learn more, you grow stronger (self-control) and you are more steadfast in your walk with God.  Not only do you grow to be more like the Lord (godliness) and the fellowship of believers get stronger and better (brotherly affection).  Not an overnight process but a lifelong process.   However listen to another passage in our reading today describe what happens when we do:
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.  They are planted in the house of the Lord; they flourish in the courts of our God.  They still bear fruit in old age; they are ever full of sap and green, to declare that the Lord is upright; he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him. -- Ps. 92:12-15

So what I am getting this morning is that we need to not waffle about the Lord but to live strong for Him.  If you have ever looked at the old and godly and wondered how you stay strong until the end like they have, I believe the process is laid out in Scripture.  We just follow it...daily.   Including today.  Have a great day doing it.