James 1:6-8 describes a person who has "divided loyalty" (NLT) or is "double-minded" (NIV).  To be "double-minded" means to look both ways at the same time.  Try doing that, and you will soon become dizzy from swinging your head back and forth!

Spiritually, a "double-minded" person is indecisive and lacks conviction.  He is unable to make up his mind, so his favorite color is plaid.  He speaks in footnotes because he is not confident enough to claim an opinion for himself.  He gets on an elevator, and when the operator asks, "Going up?" he responds, "Yes, if it's not out of your way."  He is tossed by every wind of doctrine that blows across the land and is continually running from one religion to another and is always mixed up.

James describes such a person as being like the surf of the ocean, or "an unsettled wave of the sea that is tossed by the wind" (NLT), constantly pulled in different directions by every contrary current.  Such a person is unstable in all his ways and cannot expect to receive anything from God because his loyalty is divided between God and the world (see James 1:6-8).

Do you fit that description?  How can you become stable?  By asking God for wisdom.  He has promised, "If you need wisdom, ask our generous God, and he will give it to you....But when you ask him, be sure that your faith is in God alone.  Do not waver" (James 1:5-6, NLT).  The more you read and study God's Word, the more certain you will become that Jesus is "the Way, the Truth, and the Life" (John 14:6) and the only way to see the Father and to receive eternal life, because "faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ" (Rom. 10:17, NLT).