Day 1 · A Warning against Pride
James 4:1–6
1What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you? 2You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures. 4You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God. 5Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy? 6But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Berean Standard Bible
Observe
According to James 4:1–3, where do fights among believers come from, and why do their prayers go unanswered?
Apply
When you feel frustration rising this week, how can you pause to bring your desires to God in humble prayer?
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