James 4
Well... I'm actually back in England now but have to finish what I started in France so here goes...
Remebering back,
We went out again today (If I remember correctly this wqould've been Sunday...) and headed over to 1600 againto check out some of the same runs we did yesterday in the hope that the snow would still be there. The area we went to was actually called Disneyland on account of all the fun that could be had there with many drops off rocks, more tree runs and massive dead steep and dead quick red runs. We were trying to figure out how fast it actually was that we were going but we couldn't... it felt like we must have been going about (at least) 30mph, I kid you not and when your feet are only about a cm from the ground, which is about as hard as concrete with the added bonus of ice burns should skin come into contact with it, it gets quite scary and starts to really get the blood flowing.
so as the day progressed my board was getting slower and slower due to some not very good factory wax that was standard on my board, I forgot to get it replaced and serviced yesterday... I felt I was holding everyone up... which indeed I was as I lost them all and headed down to 1650 on my own where eventually met up. we stopped off for a beer and a foot long hot dog which was dead tasty and hit the spot in the way that only a kebab satisfies your hunger after a couple of pints...
James 4
(James 4:1) What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?
(James 4:2) You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
(James 4:3) When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
(James 4:4) You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
(James 4:5) Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
(James 4:6) But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
(James 4:7) Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(James 4:8) Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
(James 4:9) Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
(James 4:10) Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
(James 4:11) Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
(James 4:12) There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you--who are you to judge your neighbor?
(James 4:13) Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."
(James 4:14) Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
(James 4:15) Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."
(James 4:16) As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
(James 4:17) Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
Talk about raising the bar again... "For all have sinned and fall sh0rt of the Glory of God"...
There was this quote on a sitcom called "8 simple rules (for dating my teenage daughters)" in which the father stated the following... "sometimes to be a good father you have to be a bad person"
I thought this was clever and heartwarming that this father was willing to be a bad person for the sake of his children. But then I started thinking, where would this line now end... Where would he draw the line of being "bad" for the sake of this father child relationship?
Then I thought that once again, God has got it right. He never has to be a bad person in order to be a good Father as He is work for the good of all who call Him Father (Rom 8:28). Just because we don't always see God's perfect purposes in all things it doesn't mean that the perfect purpose isn't there!
We should surely thank God then that he's always got our backs and is always and in all things looking out for us, just as a Father looks after his child. With this in mind, should we now question Gods motives for the way our lives pan out? or should we turn to Him in times of trouble and rest in his arms, in the knowledge that he loves us more deeply then we could ever know!
[listening to:- haha... the best worship songs...ever! volume 1]
[contemplating:- how busy my day actually is...]
Remebering back,
We went out again today (If I remember correctly this wqould've been Sunday...) and headed over to 1600 againto check out some of the same runs we did yesterday in the hope that the snow would still be there. The area we went to was actually called Disneyland on account of all the fun that could be had there with many drops off rocks, more tree runs and massive dead steep and dead quick red runs. We were trying to figure out how fast it actually was that we were going but we couldn't... it felt like we must have been going about (at least) 30mph, I kid you not and when your feet are only about a cm from the ground, which is about as hard as concrete with the added bonus of ice burns should skin come into contact with it, it gets quite scary and starts to really get the blood flowing.
so as the day progressed my board was getting slower and slower due to some not very good factory wax that was standard on my board, I forgot to get it replaced and serviced yesterday... I felt I was holding everyone up... which indeed I was as I lost them all and headed down to 1650 on my own where eventually met up. we stopped off for a beer and a foot long hot dog which was dead tasty and hit the spot in the way that only a kebab satisfies your hunger after a couple of pints...
James 4
(James 4:1) What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?
(James 4:2) You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God.
(James 4:3) When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
(James 4:4) You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
(James 4:5) Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?
(James 4:6) But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."
(James 4:7) Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
(James 4:8) Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
(James 4:9) Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
(James 4:10) Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
(James 4:11) Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
(James 4:12) There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you--who are you to judge your neighbor?
(James 4:13) Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money."
(James 4:14) Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
(James 4:15) Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."
(James 4:16) As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
(James 4:17) Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
Talk about raising the bar again... "For all have sinned and fall sh0rt of the Glory of God"...
There was this quote on a sitcom called "8 simple rules (for dating my teenage daughters)" in which the father stated the following... "sometimes to be a good father you have to be a bad person"
I thought this was clever and heartwarming that this father was willing to be a bad person for the sake of his children. But then I started thinking, where would this line now end... Where would he draw the line of being "bad" for the sake of this father child relationship?
Then I thought that once again, God has got it right. He never has to be a bad person in order to be a good Father as He is work for the good of all who call Him Father (Rom 8:28). Just because we don't always see God's perfect purposes in all things it doesn't mean that the perfect purpose isn't there!
We should surely thank God then that he's always got our backs and is always and in all things looking out for us, just as a Father looks after his child. With this in mind, should we now question Gods motives for the way our lives pan out? or should we turn to Him in times of trouble and rest in his arms, in the knowledge that he loves us more deeply then we could ever know!
[listening to:- haha... the best worship songs...ever! volume 1]
[contemplating:- how busy my day actually is...]
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