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What is the source of wars and fights among you? 
Don't they come from your passions that wage war within you? 
You desire and do not have. 
You murder and covet and cannot obtain. 
You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask. You ask and don't receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
James 4:1-3 CSB
Ouch!
This is all about my motives. 
What's really going on in my heart that triggers the internal battle, and then the actions I take, the things I do, the things I say.
I don't actually murder anyone, but I have had no problem judging someones character on very little evidence, disregarding people because they hold an opinion that I don't, want what someone else has, covet their privilege while ignoring mine...the list goes on...
James in the most loving way possible wants us to "get underneath the hood" and asks us to have a good look at what makes us tick.
Not because he's any different, but because he knows we all carry the same heart weaknesses. 
Yes they show up in different ways, but we've all got something that needs naming and challenging in the light of Love. 
Love calls us to see the world differently, to shift things inside which impact how we see, what we value, and what can be let go.
Love calls us to (re)connection, to the thriving and flourishing of "us"
#james
#itsaheartthing

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