Monday! Back to the gym!

What causes fights and quarrels among you?
Don't they come from your desires that battle within you?
James 4:1 NIV
This word "desires" means when satisfying our bodily desires comes at the expense of other things.
When that pleasure becomes an end in itself.
Ouch.
The Greek word here is "hedone" where we get the word hedonistic from.
What's on the list?
Food?
What I watch?
I put my headphones on because what I want to listen to is way more important to me than talking with you...
Where's the battle?
Within.
So where is the battle won?
Within.
What we think is important, what we value most.
And it comes back to the most basic questions (not basic as in simple) of the Bible...
Love and worship
What or who do I love?
What or who do I worship?
James knows where the battle is.
Within
But it finds its expression on the outside.
Today I choose to be in the battle.
Within
To love God
First
And let that find it's expression on the outside
To love people
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