Gm Fb Congregation :-)!! If you are wise and understand God’s ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom. But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying. For jealousy and selfishness are not God’s kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind. But the wisdom from above is first of all pure. It is also peace loving, gentle at all times, and willing to yield to others. It is full of mercy and the fruit of good deeds. It shows no favoritism and is always sincere. And those who are peacemakers will plant seeds of peace and reap a harvest of righteousness ( James 3:13-18 NLT). Have you ever known anyone who claimed to be wise but who acted foolishly? True wisdom can be measured by a persons character. Just as you can identify a tree by the type of is fruit it produces, you can evaluate your wisdom by the way you act. Foolishness lead to disorder, but wisdom lead to peace in goodness. Are you tempted to escalate the conflict, pass on the gossip, I fan the fire of discord? Careful, winsome speak the wise, loving words are the seeds of peace. God loves peacemakers. Bitter jealousy and selfish ambition are inspired by the devil. It is easy for us to be drawn into wrong desires by the pressures of society and sometimes even by well-meaning Christians. By listening to the advice to “Assert yourself, “Go for it, “Set high goal, we can be drawn into greed and destructive competitiveness. Seeking Gods wisdom delivers us from the need to compare ourselves to other and to want what they have. Tyndale.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:48:08 +0000
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