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Jas_4:1
Quarrels certainly do not come from heaven. If we always acted under the rule of grace, love would create perfect peace at home and abroad.
Jas_4:2
Praying is better than fighting. If God will give us what we ask, why need we fight for it?
Jas_4:3
If any say that they have prayed and not received, it is clear that their motive was selfish, and therefore God would not gratify them.
Jas_4:4
Ye adulterers and adulteresses who give to worldly things the love which is due to Christ alone
Jas_4:4
How can you then love worldliness, and make earthly treasures your grand pursuit?
Jas_4:6
The testimony of Scripture concerning man’s nature is manifestly true. We are by nature selfish and envious; but grace will enable us to conquer our inbred sins, if we humbly own them, and ask for help to overcome them.
Jas_4:7
He is a coward, assail him boldly and he will quit the field.
Jas_4:9
Voluntarily sorrow for sin, or you will have to suffer for it eternally. Mourn at the cross, or you will weep before the throne.
Jas_4:11
The man who is severe upon his brother sets himself up to be a better judge than God. He would have those punished whom God has not punished; and thus he sits in judgment upon God, as though he were wiser than the Judge of all the earth.
Jas_4:13-14
To count on life as if we had a lease of it is madness. If it be wrong to boast of to-morrow, what folly must it be to be plotting and planning for a great while to come? It is our duty and privilege to live by the day.
Jas_4:15
This should be your general mode of speech. The mere use of the letters D. V. is an evasion of the rule: to live hour by hour, as those who will soon give an account, is the true mode of living.Lest any should say, “We know all this, for we are fully persuaded that unless God lets us live we can do nothing,” James adds, “Do you know so well? then you are all the more bound to do well, for knowledge involves responsibility.”
Tomorrow, Lord, is thine,
Lodged in thy sovereign hand;
Lodged in thy sovereign hand;
And if its sun arise and shine,
It shines by thy command.
The present moment flies,
And bears our life away;
The present moment flies,
And bears our life away;
Oh, make thy servants truly wise,
That they may live to-day.
To Jesus may we fly,
Swift as the morning light;
To Jesus may we fly,
Swift as the morning light;
Lest life’s young golden beams should die,
In sudden endless night.