What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? 2You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot 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.
James 4:1-3
You can't always have what you want in this world. Nobody gets what they expect they will from life. This passage of scripture reminds me that fights, and disagreements are caused by wrong desires. This passage also reminds me that when praying to God, you must have the right motives in order for your prayers to be answered.
Have you ever selfishly prayed, "Lord let me get that job," then someone else got it, and you were resentful towards that person? Maybe it was not God's will for you to get the job in the first place. And maybe you did not ask with the right motives.
Not getting what you want is a fact of life, it happens. But if you are open to the will of God in your life and delight in him, he will give you the desires of your heart.
Seek first the kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be added to you.
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