COME CLOSE TO GOD

What is causing the quarrels and the fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? You want what you don’t have so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. And even when you ask you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong – you want only what will give you pleasure. You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world make you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. What do you think the scriptures mean when they say that the Spirit God placed within us is filled with envy? But He gives us even more grace to stand against such evil desires. As the scripture says: God opposes the proud But favors the humble” So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Come close to God, and God will come close to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, purify your hearts for your loyalty is divided between God and the world. Let there be tears for what you have done. Let there be sorrow and deep grief. Let there be sadness instead of laughter, and gloom instead of joy. Humble yourselves before the lord and He will lift you up in honor. How many times have you been coming close to God? Remembering what we do to our brothers and sisters. We kill, destroy even murder and fight. God is not happy with what we do. He wants us to repent and seek forgiveness and have good fellowship with Him. Pastor Mike