Greetings! James 4:1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? The word submission means, an act of yielding to the authority or control of another.Let me ask you something,Have you ever in your life or even today,submit to things or people in life to get the things we want out of life.Do we at times want something so badly that we submit to doing anything to get it. Maybe admiration? Possessions, Pleasures, Food or Money. I know I do. In Rom 6:16 Paul tells us, to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey,you are that one's slave.That is why James is telling us here,we must submit ourselves to God! He actually says that we should, Humble yourselves before the Lord,and he will lift you up. You see when we are Humbling ourselves before God,we are submitting ourselves to Him.We are turning our control over to him. I know! Easier said than done. This is true.But it is something we must work on and try and do on a daily basis.Because until we do, we will fight and quarrel among ourselves.But the real battle is the one that goes on within. With our desires and the things we want. Those things are not always the things God wants for us.So today let us Humble ourselves before the Lord, Submit to Him and he will help us to battle those desires.Remember our main desire should be to serve God,not ourselves! HABD!
Author: Daniel Dittman
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