Come Near To God
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
Every single one of us is tempted when we are drawn away by our
own desires. Be careful of the “me first” mentality. It is God, who should be
first.
When you have troubles, don’t try to solve them yourself. Ask
God in full faith, and you will be given the tools you need, when you need
them.
When you forget yourself, you usually start doing something
others will remember.
Live for God, live for good.
Our Daily Bread –