Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners;
and purify your hearts, you double-minded. – James 4.7-8
We are always going to be tempted to cosy up to the
world. It is always going to be here and we are always going to have to see it
and live in it.
So we need a plan to stay out of it.
Verses 7-8 contain that plan. There are some more
spiritual things to do and they are a couple of practical things. I am going to
look at the first few today.
First of course is the teaching to submit to God. That
of course lays the foundation for all the rest. If we submit to God we submit
to His will. He submit to His leadership. We submit to His word. We submit to
His plan. We submit to His way.
When we submit to God we can’t submit to friendship
with the world.
Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Since the
devil is the source of the present world system it only makes sense that if we
flee from him we are fleeing from the ways of the world and from friendship
with it.
If we resist the devil he flees. If we draw close to
God He draws close to us. If we don’t want to be friends with the world we pull
away from the system. If we want to be friends with God we get close to Him and
He gets close to us.
Submission to God – step number one in battling
friendship with the world system.
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