HELEN SANDERS
6-12-2026
YOYO CHRISTIANITY

Have you ever played with a yoyo? My older brothers were quite good at it. I did okay, but I never achieved what they did. A yoyo has a string wound around a piece of wood or plastic, and as you let it fall, the string can control the wooden piece to go up and down. Some people can make them go amazingly fast and others just maintain it rhythmically up and down. Most of the time that I tried to make it work, it only went up and down once and then it would just fall flat. It takes a lot of practice to be good at making a yoyo work. I guess I was more interested in my doll than the yoyo.

When it comes to calling someone a yoyo, it means they are up and down, up and down. In Christianity it would mean that one day their faith is up and the next day their faith is down. They are unstable.

The book of James tells us in chapter one that we must ask God for things in faith, without wavering. It must be consistent, not up and down. It goes on to say in 1:8 that “A double-minded man (up and down in faith) is unstable in “all” his ways.” In other words, one day the person believes and the next day they doubt. That is being doubleminded.

It takes practice not to be doubleminded. It takes time to study God’s Word and learn His promises. Just like it takes time to master any skill, you must take time to master your faith. It would be very sad to go through life and be told by God that you are “unstable in all your ways.”

I suggest that those of us that have not practiced or lived our lives by faith must make a choice to do so now. Hebrews tells us in 11:6 “…. without faith it is impossible to please him…” So, if we want to please God, we must build up our faith, and not be like a yoyo that is up and down. I believe you can do it my friends. I have faith that you will not be a Yoyo Christian!