Submit Yourselves to God
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You 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. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double‑minded.
So what really does cause fights and quarrels? Whether on a personal or international level, the truth is as described here in James 4. Selfishness, egocentrism, self indulgence, the desire for constant entertainment, pride... these are all manifestations of idolatry, which
the Lord despises and will not honor.
Victory as manifested by joy, peace, contentment, real & lasting satisfaction, & selflessness comes from total and unconditional surrender to our Abba daddy.
If you are still resisting and chasing worthless idols surrender today. Give up the good things in life for the Best.
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