James 4 (New American Standard Bible)

1 What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask.3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.4 You adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”? 6 But He gives a greater grace Therefore it says, “GOD IS OPPOSED TO THE PROUD, BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.” 7Submit therefore to God Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

It is so easy to fool humans.  And I dont say that will a malicious frame of mind just the fact that we as humans do it all the time.  A person from the office will ask “How’s it going?” the other person will answer “Pretty Good, How bout you?” , “Oh doing well, thanks for asking.”.  All of it being a facade when one is going through a divorce and the other is financially in jeopardy.  They are both wrestling with the fact that neither one of them have found what they are seeking in life because they don’t have the personal relationship with God that they need.  Scripture is so obvious about where our motives are to lye.   It is crystal clear about what the relationship to the things of this world will bring us.

Yet we still time after time seek the things of this world, and yet we do not do what we know we should do.  For example so many marriages have disputes over money, matter of fact it is one of the biggest causes of divorce.  So you would think that couples would take a step back and put money in its place.  God tells us that we are to rely upon Him for our needs and our wants and that we are supposed to make His work priority one and that He will provide the rest.  So as Christians I challenge us to put away the things of the world and focus on the things of God.  We need to be the best tool for Him and allow Him to work through our lives to affect the world around us.  I pray that you would be sensitive to His leadership and His cautions.

God Bless ~ Tyler