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Devotional: James 4:1-3

Today’s passage: James 4:1-3

Helpful thoughts:

  • If there is strife and turmoil all around you, it’s not everyone else’s fault.
  • We do what we do because we want what we want.
  • If I am willing to sin in order to get something, or if I sin because I didn’t get what I wanted, I have supplanted God’s rule over my life.

Questions to consider:

  1. Would you consider the heart of the person/people described in today’s passage as humble or full of bitter jealousy and selfish ambition (See James 3:13-18)?
  2. How is this pattern of being prideful and selfish the opposite of loving and the opposite of freedom?
  3. When anger or bitterness well up in your heart, what would be a good question to ask yourself before you act or speak in a destructive manner?  How could this passage help you to have victory in those moments?

August 7, 2019 Category: Devotions, James

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