If you are wise and understand God's ways, prove it by living an honorable life, doing good works with the humility that comes from wisdom.

But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don't cover up the truth with boasting and lying.

For jealousy and selfishness are not God's kind of wisdom. Such things are earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.

For wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there you will find disorder and evil of every kind.

James 3:13-16 NLT

As we read James letter what images come to mind?

Here's 2 of mine:

One is a person looking at the 2 choices James describes, weighing & considering them, in one hand, understanding more of God, showing that in good works, in being others focussed, in the things we do, and in the other hand selfishness.

The other image is a path. Along the path are decisions, every day type decisions, big decisions, opportunities, and as I walk, there's clear options, and some not so clear, that will lead in the general direction that I want to go. And I want to go towards that place James describes of wisdom, of understanding more of God's ways, and the path, the choices, are not always clear, and not always easy to make. Doing good with humility can be a rough path some days.

As you read this passage what bubbles up for you?

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