Come Near God And
He Will Come Near To You
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.
You
adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity
against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes
an enemy of God. Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he
jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? But he gives us more grace. That is why
Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”
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.
James 4:1-10
What
does the word submission mean to you? If you submit to anything more than you
submit to Jesus, you need to reassess your outlook.
Humble
yourself before the Lord and ask Him to show you your heart. That will help you
recognize your own submission problems.
True freedom is not in choosing your own way,
but in submitting to God’s way.
Our Daily Bread –