Summary: <p class="chapter-1"><strong>Hi, this is Ricky and our Daily Devotional today is found in James 4. </strong><strong>Feel free to read along in the show notes below.</strong><br> <strong>Also, I’d love to hear your thoughts on this scripture so comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/james-4/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/james-4/</a>.</strong></p> <p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Jas-4-1">1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?</span> <span id="en-ESV-30323" class="text Jas-4-2"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30324" class="text Jas-4-3"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30325" class="text Jas-4-4"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30326" class="text Jas-4-5"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?</span> <span id="en-ESV-30327" class="text Jas-4-6"><sup class="versenum">6 </sup>But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-30328" class="text Jas-4-7"><sup class="versenum">7 </sup>Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30329" class="text Jas-4-8"><sup class="versenum">8 </sup>Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30330" class="text Jas-4-9"><sup class="versenum">9 </sup>Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30331" class="text Jas-4-10"><sup class="versenum">10 </sup>Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.</span></p> <p><span id="en-ESV-30332" class="text Jas-4-11"><sup class="versenum">11 </sup>Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30333" class="text Jas-4-12"><sup class="versenum">12 </sup>There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?</span></p> <p><span class="text Jas-4-13"><sup class="versenum">13 </sup>Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—</span> <span id="en-ESV-30335" class="text Jas-4-14"><sup class="versenum">14 </sup>yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30336" class="text Jas-4-15"><sup class="versenum">15 </sup>Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”</span> <span id="en-ESV-30337" class="text Jas-4-16"><sup class="versenum">16 </sup>As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.</span> <span id="en-ESV-30338" class="text Jas-4-17"><sup class="versenum">17 </sup>So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.</span></p> <p><strong>What do you think? </strong><br> <strong>Comment on this episode at <a href="http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/james-4/">http://dailydevotionalpodcast.com/podcast/james-4/</a>. </strong><br> <strong>Email me with comments, feedback, or prayer reque</strong></p>
