By Allen White
What causes fights and quarrels among
you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want
something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you
want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. James 4:1-2
(NIV)
How do you
keep crabs in a basket? You don’t need a lid. You just need two crabs. One will
make sure the other doesn’t get out of the basket. Sometimes you and I act like
crabs.
Our human
nature is prone to jealousy. We may not go to the extent of killing or
fighting, but we sometimes covet and quarrel. It all has the same root: a lack
of faith in God.
There is a
great deal of inequity in the world. There is really no clear resolution in
this life. We can easily torture ourselves by trying to figure out why godly
people suffer while people who reject God prosper. There’s just no good answer
other than “He causes his sun to rise on the evil
and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous” (Matthew 5:45, NIV).
James
clearly gives the solution: “You do not
have, because you do not ask God.” We don’t need to fight. We just need to
ask.
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