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Daily Devotion Archive
God’s Word for You – James 4:11-12 Do not judge
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 4:11-12 11 Stop speaking evil against each another, brothers! Someone who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not someone who obeys the law, but a judge. 12 There is only one lawgiver […]
God’s Word for You – James 4:10 He will lift you up
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 4:10 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up. We discussed repentance with the previous verses. Verse ten comes as a summary with a gospel promise attached: “The Lord will lift you up.” The scene is any ancient throne room. The subjects of the King come […]
God’s Word for You – James 4:8b-9 Wash your hands
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 4:8b-9 Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve and mourn and weep. Change your laughter to sorrow and your joy to gloom. Obviously this is the hard part of what coach James has to say. Using words meant to break the heart and crush […]
God’s Word for You – James 4:8a He will draw near
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 4:8a 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. James is going to talk about the manner in which we draw near to God. He will talk about repentance and turning away from sin. But before we talk about that, we need to keep two important […]
God’s Word for You – James 4:7 One little word
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 4:7 7 So submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Where English has only two voices, active and passive, Greek has a third voice, described by the unromantic but functional term ‘middle.’ The middle voice shows where a person does something for themselves in […]
God’s Word for You – James 4:4-6 Live as a beloved bride
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 4:4-6 4 You adulteresses! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Who does James mean when he booms out this “Adulteresses!” He doesn’t mean the women of the dispersed […]
God’s Word for You – James 4:2-3 You don’t ask
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 4:2-3 2 You lust and do not have. You murder, you covet but you don’t have what you want. You fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with the wrong motive: to spend it on […]
God’s Word for You – James 4:1 Lusts at war
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 4:1 Friendship with the World is Hatred Toward God In chapter 4, James explains that faith submits to God in view of all our relationships. That is to say, we show our faith to God in the way we behave toward each other. After ending chapter 3 with the divine […]
God’s Word for You – James 3:16-18 Harvest of righteousness
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 3:16-18 16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will be disorder and every bad practice. Our coach James explains what happens when (bitter) envy and selfish ambition rule a man’s life. He will leave nothing behind him but disorder and “every bad practice.” “Bad” here is phaulos, […]
God’s Word for You – James 3:14-15 Every. Single. Day.
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 3:14-15 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, stop boasting about it and lying against the truth. 15 Such wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, devilish. Look at the way James coaches us to deal with sinful motives. He […]
God’s Word for You – James 3:13 Humble wisdom
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 3:13 James moves away from speech to thoughts. Rather than talk about intelligence or wisdom as something one has or doesn’t have, as it often is presented in the Proverbs, James assumes a certain amount of wisdom and intelligence in everyone. But what kind of wisdom do we have? Is […]
God’s Word for You – James 3:9-12 To bless and curse
GOD’S WORD FOR YOU JAMES 3:9-12 9 With it we bless the Lord and Father, and with it we curse those who are made in the likeness of God. 10 From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, this should not happen. 11 Does a spring gush with both fresh and bitter water […]
