Join us as we read the scriptures and a daily devotion written by Don Crisp. We pray these messages will bless us all at this time.
Thurs 25th June – James 3:13-14
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Thurs 25th June – Read James 3:13-14
V13: Addressing his readers – and us – directly, James asks who regards themselves as wise, as having good understanding ? (we should remember James 1:5 here.) Let them show it by their Christian lives, by walking in obedience and faith, by God’s grace – this would be true wisdom
in practice – and let it be with “meekness” – humility, for it is always and only from God, and by His enabling grace.
V14: Verses like this may make us wonder if James is addressing true believers, or directing them to unbelievers who may be in their assemblies, but I think it best to see them as warnings to believers of our own weakness and failings (remember 1 Corinthians 10:12.) And where professing Christians do display the things he speaks of here, jealousy, ambition, selfishness, let them not deny it and boast of their obedient lives, for they deny by this the truth they profess to live by. James ” pulls no punches”, and constantly challenges us as to our Christian walk.