Friday, September 13

James 4:1-10


"What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures." (4:1-4)


"Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up." (4:7-10)


Humility then, is the answer. 

"Once we are convinced again that we have everything we need in Christ and that his saving work is finished, our faith is stoked once more, and love - concern for others that overshadows a concern for ourselves - blossoms. 

The Gospel stokes faith, faith produces humility, and humility restores relationships."

http://liberatenet.org/2013/09/10/what-binds-up-broken-relationships/

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therefore, friends, let's not give the devil room to get in between our relationships with one another. the silly arguments, petty fights & disagreements, jealousy, covetousness, etc.. they're all works of the devil to turn us against one another, that we might be less effective for the gospel of Christ. 

rather, let us humbly stand firm together, in Christ, on mission to share the love of Jesus.

2 comments:

  1. Very well said, Haley! Something I really do need to remember! Gma

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  2. Very well said, Haley! Something I really do need to remember! Gma

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