What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 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. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4 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.
As we have seen, James has us looking in the mirror doing some serious self-examination of our actions, words, and now deeper into our attitudes and motivations. We struggle with this overall selfishness which drives us to jealously of those around us, erupting in arguments and even physical encounters. What this is, James tells us, is wanting the world more than God, choosing the focus and things of this world over Him. Looking in the mirror, which do we look more like: this world around us or our Father in heaven?
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