Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—James 3:13-18
by: Renee Sanford.
Every day we are bombarded with stimuli designed to make us ambitious, to make us desire what we do not have, and to make us envy those who have more than we do. Nurturing such desires is the opposite of wisdom. James tells us this “anti-wisdom” is demonic, leading to disorder and evil practices. That should make us shudder and resolve to enter willingly into a daily battle to seek the pure, peace-loving wisdom of God, full of mercy and good fruit. If we persist, the victory will be ours, for we do not do battle on our own—our Savior fights beside us.