The Equilibrium Point of Our Convictions (Santosh Poonen)

Meditating on God’s Word should be like receiving spiritual CPR — life breathed in by the One who has Life. After Joshua’s generation of elders died, the Israelites did what was right in their own eyes because they had no king (Joshua 24:19-31; Judges 2:6-11, 7:33, 17:6, 21:25). Baal is characterized by playing the harlot — thinking you can serve both Jehovah and Baal (I Kings 18:21). The New Covenant equivalent of Baal is Mammon (Luke 16:13) — wealth or power, and greed for it, personified as a deity in which one trusts. The Church has been entrusted with the ministry of Elijah, to call God’s people out of harlotry into pure devotion to the true God. Our personal convictions must not be fixed because of the traditions of men, nor reactionary swinging to the other extreme. Rather they must be a constant correcting to the equilibrium point which is Christ, the Living Word. It’s important not to confuse being filled with the Spirit (John 3:8) with being double-minded (James 1:6-8).