Battle/Skopeo
1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us? 6 But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: “God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.”James 4:1-6
The battles we fight are not always against your neighbor, friend, or family, a lot of battles you fight are from within. What battle are you fighting now? Is it a battle to be the best at what you are in this world? It is a battle with a particular sin? Maybe it is a battle with the world that is fighting against you and your family unit. I think that we can get swallowed up in what the world tells us to seek out for our own pleasures,and that can make us proud as we chase after that thing that can cause that battle within. Maybe we should take a moment and "skopeo" which is the Greek word for See, Look, Consider and Examine. If we take a moment to "see" what we are pursuing, "look" to what battle it is causing, "Consider" where God wants us to be, and "Examine" our heart to fight the battle within, I think we can become that humble individual and receive what God wants us to have. Remember to avoid the friendship with the world that leads to being an enemy of God, but battle against that friendship to a closer relationship with Him. Skopeo.
Have a great weekend.
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