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James: 4:1-3
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 cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have to 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.
Here you are again, just killing. What does it take to stop the killing and listen to the word of God? The source of your strife comes from the evil desires of the heart. One nation attack another to maintain honor, or to rectify claims of a territory or assumed necessity of truth.
War has its fountain within the soul, steaming out of a prideful heart or the lust for power. These passions of your members pitch their camp in the organs of sense and action.
The remedy for strife lies in prayer. Every morning I pray for peace. The peace none other than Jesus can bring. You and I must realize our dependence upon God. To struggle after the work in our own strength will tend only to foster the war spirit within us. You and I cannot expect God to answer the prayer that our worldly needs may prosper if we secretly resolve to employ that success in catering for self-glorification. What we ask must be what is needed for the service of the Lord.
We shall secure peace among the powers and passions of the heart if we seek first our Father’s kingdom and righteousness.
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