Αποτελέσματα Αναζήτησης
David Guzik commentary on James 4, where James emphasizes the humble character of a living faith and of a dependency on God.
The honour and help God gives to the humble. Grace, as opposed to disgrace, is honour; this God gives to the humble; and, where God gives grace to be humble, there he will give all other graces, and, as in the beginning of this sixth verse, he will give more grace.
1. (James 4:13-16) A caution against an attitude of independence from God. Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then ...
We must preserve a constant regard, and pay the utmost deference to the disposals of divine Providence, ver 13, to the end. Origin of War and Contention; Against Pride; Submission to God. (A.D.61.)
The admonition against worldliness continues with a directive against making plans without reference to the will of God (James 4:13-17). Whence come wars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
The proud resist God: in their understanding they resist the truths of God; in their will they resist the laws of God; in their passions they resist the providence of God; therefore, no wonder that God resists the proud. How wretched the state of those who make God their enemy!
James 4:13-17 Self-confidence in Our Life-plans .—St. James has still in mind the same wrong mood of self-reliance and self-assertion. It is altogether unbecoming to those who have professed to make full surrender of their hearts and wills and lives to Christ.
