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Year Bible for 11/20/11-"You do not have because you do not ask God.
When you ask you do not receive because you ask with wrong motives, that
you may spend what you get on your pleasures. . . . Anyone who chooses
to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God (James 4:2c-4)."
In his letter, James was addressing the fighting and quarreling going on in the church (surprise!). Jealousy of
others. He wrote "some even killed out of wanting what someone else
had." All that we are and
have comes from God. We were created to be spiritual beings. The
material world we live in is not reality, it is a physical substitute
where we are challenged to learn divine spiritual lessons as our souls
progress in the life God has for us. The words from James are there to
correct our thinking regarding our "needs" and how they are to be
supplied.
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