James 4:1-3
1What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.3 When you ask, you do not
receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Reflection
Our scripture today shows the ultimate goal of an idol: conflict. Because what happens is an unmet desire led us to seek an earthly cure for that desire that we rationalize by saying, “I deserve this.” This leads us to judge our brothers and sisters and then ultimately to punish them. The trouble is that ultimately this punishment may never be known by the other people. It can represent itself as anger, conflict, anxiety, and even toxic relationships, but all of it has it’s source in our idols. How do you think conflicts in your life could revolve around an idol? How do you think a conflict in our church could revolve around an idol?
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