JAMES 4:3-10
When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?[a] 6But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says:
”God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”
7Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
We must remember to ask for things from God instead of from life. From life comes self-fulfillment. The more we do that the less we will seek God. How thirsty are we for Him? Thirsty enough to continue to be faithful and submissive after our feeble cries for help? Purify your heart and don’t try to build Faith on experience, but desire to reach our final goal by humbly knocking at God’s door.
This really hit home to me this morning when I recieved it in a text from Kyle. I mean we do this so much and don’t realize it. If we only knew how much God desires to answer our hearts cries, our prayers , our desires and hopes. He is always there waiting for us to get to that place where our trust is solely on him. I am learning to appreciate him for who he is, not what he can do, not what he has done. But who he is. I mean its good to appreciate him for the other things, but sometimes we focus on that more than loving him because of who he is. I hope you take time today to just spend time with him and love on him for who he is.
I love you so much!!!!
