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The life with one aim, one purpose

There is something intoxicating about the one that sets his mind on something. Like my son who is saving up money to buy a drum kit. Like the actress in pursuit of fame. Or the entrepreneur who lost the concept of “enough”, always risking, always pushing for one more idea. We love it! Our mouths fall open for the dedicated person. We naturally respect it. We applaud when someone worked really hard to achieve something.

Why do we respect single-mindedness?

Because God respects it. God is single-minded. God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all. And since God is like this, we are too. We salute the resolute person, because we are made in the image of God. Think about it. God resists the proud, and so do you. God loves humility and draws near to the humble. And so do you. In the same way, God loves whole-heartedness and He hates indifference. And so do you.
He says in Revelation 3 that He will spit the lukewarm, who is neither hot nor cold, out of His mouth. Even this statement is enthusiastic! It is clear that God hates listless apathy.

The bible makes it clear that God loves unswerving single-mindedness.

We see how much Jael, the wife of Heber, was honoured for driving a tent peg through the temple of Sisera’s head. Can you even imagine that scene in real life. “Here, Sisera, lay your weary head… Want some milkies and cookies?....Bam bam bam.”
We read of the countless examples in Hebrews 11, of men and women that made it clear that they were seeking a homeland, a better country, a heavenly one.
There are several references of the devotion of the New Testament believers, to God, not money (Luke 16), to prayer (Acts 1:14, 6:4), to the apostle’s teaching, the breaking of bread and fellowship (Acts 2), to the public reading of scripture (1 Tim 4) and to good works (Tit 3:14).
We see joy in suffering and even martyrdom, because of single-hearted devotion to Jesus in Acts 16.

As I meditate on the stories of single-minded men and women, I get excited. I heat up. I dream. Something is so very right about it. And yet, most mornings I wake up ready to mix and match my dualistic motives of self-preservation with kingdom-living. Don’t you wish we could die once and die well! But, as it has been famously said, “the problem with a living sacrifice is that it keeps crawling off the altar”. The same grace that allows our yesterdays to be over, gives us an opportunity to choose God afresh in the new day. Oh, faith, how sweet the sound!

I desire single-mindedness, fully.

Devotion, perseverance, follow-through, idol-slaughtering, all of these in greater measure. I am crying out for myself and for my generation; That we would die to live, wait to act, receive to give, trust to entrust, pray to know power. Even writing this, I am yearning to see it with my own eyes; a generation sold out to God, with no personal agendas, petty ambitions, pathetic excuses or self-pardoning theologies, but resolve and decisive resolution, tenacity and intent.
And I think it comes only by spending time with the most satisfied, glorified, focused person in all the universe, God Himself. Meditating on His person as revealed through the word, enjoyed in prayer, and some active steps of faith in response to God’s promptings.
God is worthy, forever and ever.