Are any of you wise and understanding? Show that your actions are good with a humble lifestyle that comes from wisdom. However, if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, then stop bragging and living in ways that deny the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above. Instead, it is from the earth, natural and demonic. Wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and everything that is evil. What of the wisdom from above? First, it is pure, and then peaceful, gentle, obedient, filled with mercy and good actions, fair, and genuine. Those who make peace sow the seeds of justice by their peaceful acts. (James 3:13-18, CEB)
Are you wise and understanding?
I would always say no to this. I do not consider myself to be wise. I know some things and some things I don’t. And I try to be understanding but I know I fail more often than not.
But I do try to be humble in my interactions with others. When I am wrong I seek to offer grace and learn. I try to be humble in everything I do, showing forth love, grace, and mercy as God loves, graces and shows me mercy.
I try not to do things for my own gain, but to always show forth God’s love.
Are we motivated for our own gain? For what we get? If so the author of James tells us to stop bragging and living a life that denies the truth. Thr truth is we are where we are because of God’s grace, mercy, and love. We need to be motivated by that.
Motivated to love the world because we were loved first. Not for what we get.
Do not be motivated by selfish ambition or for a prize you may or may not get.
Love because that is the best thing to do.
Loving People. Loving God.
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