From whence come
wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war
in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot
obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask
amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
Do ye think that the
scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he
giveth more grace.
Wherefore he saith,
God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves
therefore to God.
Resist the devil,
and he will flee from you.
Draw nigh to God,
and he will draw nigh to you.
Cleanse your hands,
ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
Be afflicted, and
mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to
heaviness.
Humble yourselves in
the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
Speak not evil one
of another, brethren.
He that speaketh
evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and
judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but
a judge.
There is one
lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest
another?
Go to now, ye that
say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a
year, and buy and sell, and get gain Whereas ye know not what shall be on the
morrow.
For what is your
life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth
away.
For that ye ought to
say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
But now ye rejoice
in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Therefore to him
that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
James 4:1-17
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Truth.
Tomorrow we will
delve into the truth above, 'if the Lord will'.
Truly, our lives are
out of our own hands. We don't know whether we'll be alive from one moment to
the next. We have hope to live, hope to love, hope to excel and yet these hopes
need to be focused on our Lord, not our selves. Our excelling should be to His
glory, not ours and this confuses so many of us in so many ways.
Please, Father in
Heaven, please bless us as we seek to LIVE our lives here and now for You and
Your will not for ourselves and our own will.
Please.
Thank You! In the name of our Savior the Lord Jesus
Christ.
Amen.
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