Category: Devotion of the Day

Nothing Wavering

But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.
James 1:6

The man who lacks wisdom is promised it, but he must ask in faith and not be like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. Our Lord said we could move mountains if we commanded them to move and did not doubt in our hearts (Mk. 11:23). The positive side of that is in the next verse, which says, “What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.”

Abraham “staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith.” There we have the negative and positive again (Rom. 4:20). Some are saved from sin but not from staggering.

“Let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.” Positive and negative! Are you walking by faith or wobbling in doubt? “We lie to God in prayer when we do not rely on God after prayer.” James is very clear: “Let not that man think he shall receive anything of the Lord.”

Asking without believing marks a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

The daily devotions are from Day by Day by Vance Havner. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1953.

Second Adam

For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.
I Corinthians 15:22

We are all children of the first Adam. He fell and to this day we suffer the consequences. Sin, disease, death, all the corruptions and frailties of the body, mind and spirit, we inherit from our father, the first man of the earth, earthy.

But God started a new race with His Son from heaven. To as many as receive Him to them gives He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name. Read Romans 5 for a glorious picture of the two Adams.

Here is the true super race of sons of God whose citizenship is in heaven. We still carry the marks of Adam’s fall, and our bifocals and bridges and baldness and all our frailties bear witness that we are his offspring. But from the day we believe, we begin a new life which shall discard this shell for a new body at the resurrection. Our New Adam is perfect, and all we need here and hereafter is found in Him. We can reign in life now by Christ Jesus.

The daily devotions are from Day by Day by Vance Havner. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1953.