OUR DAILY BREAD : I SHALL NOT WANT

[cimi]

May 22
Saturday


I SHALL
NOT WANT

READ:
James 4:1-10
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The world is Mine,
and all its fullness.
__Psalm 50:12
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Before they were a week old, the eaglets were fighting over food. Neither was strong enough to hold up his head for more than a few seconds, so the pair looked like fuzzballs with bobble-heads attached. But whenever the parents brought food to the nest, the bigger eaglet was quick to peck down his brother to keep him from getting a single bite. His aggression would have been understandable if food was scarce, or if the parents couldn't be trusted to supply what he needed. But nothing could be further from the truth. The eaglets were being fed fish many times their size; there was more than enough for both of them.

The greedy eaglet reminds me of our own foolishness when we try to get for ourselves something that belongs to someone else (James 4:1-5). Conflicts erupt because we want something that God has given to a friend, colleague, relative, or neighbor. Instead of asking God for what we need, we try to get what He's given to someone else (v.2). But God has something good for each of us. We don't need what belongs to anyone else. And we certainly never need to harm anyone to get what we need.

Our loving heavenly Father has more than enough for everyone.
__Julie Ackerman Link
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````````````````````The secret of contentment is`````````````````
```````````````````````To let the Lord supply;```````````````````
`````````````````Just do your part and put God first```````````````
````````````````And on His Word rely. __D. De Haan``````````````
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Our needs will never exhaust God's supply.

**************Today's Bible Reading __ James 4:1-10**************

1 Where do wars and fights
come from among you? Do
they not come from your
desires for pleasure that war
in your members? 2 You lust
and do not have. You
murder and covet and
cannot obtain. You fight and
war. Yet you do not have
because you do not ask.

3 You ask and do not
receive, because you ask
amiss, that you may spend
it on your pleasures.

4 Adulterers and
adulteresses! Do you not
know that friendship with
the world is enmity with
God? Whoever therefore
wants to be a friend of the
world makes himself an
enemy of God. 5 Or do you
think that the Scripture says
in vain, "The Spirit who
dwells in us yearns
jealously"?

6 But He gives more grace.
Therefore He says: "God
resists the proud, but gives
grace to the humble."

7 Therefore submit to God.
Resist the devil and he will
flee from you. 8 Draw near
to God and he will draw
near to you. Cleanse your
hands, you sinners; and
purify your hearts, you
double-minded. 9 Lament
and mourn and weep! Let
your laughter be turned to
mourning and your joy to
gloom. 10 Humble
yourselves in the sight of
the Lord, and He will lift
you up.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>INSIGHT<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Lust or covetousness (v.2) or greed is the subject of the 8th and 10th
commandments (Ex. 20:15,17; Deut. 5:19,21). Jesus too warned us
to guard against all kinds of greed (Luke 12:15). Greed is idolatry
(Eph. 5:5; Col. 3:5), because in essence, greed is worship of self.
__SIM KAY TEE