James 4:1-3 NIV
What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you can’t have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive; because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
Poem
It’s so easy for a man to be killed
Over nonsense, a quarrel
Left unsettled, only to blow up
In ones face
Leading to a lost life
Or a broken friendship
It tends to call for ones tears
As we cry in our pain
Hold our stomachs
How life is so cheaply taken for granted
Relationships lost so quickly
Here today
And gone the next
Tomorrow is not the same
And it hurts.
James 1:19- 21 NIV
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. Therefore, get rid of all moral filth and evil that is so prevalent and humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you.
It is a shame the lives get lost from silly quarrels, etc. The Bible speaks on this, and is so poignant today as always.
ReplyDeleteQuick to listen and slow to speak. I love that.