July 20

James 4:5 (NIV84)
5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?

Interesting verse huh? The Spirit of God envies, in fact the Word says that God is a jealous God. Our spirits envies as well because we are created in God’s image. What we will envy and desire intensely is the question that needs to be answered. One thing for sure is that we WILL intensely desire something – we were made for that!

People in the church have for years desired all kinds of worldly things and therefore the church has become more worldly than godly. I am not saying that there are no godly churches, what I am saying is that churches and filled with stupid stuff because people are intensely desiring stupid stuff. God is jealous for us and we should have the same attitude towards Him – we can will to be jealous for God! When we have this Godly jealousy then we will desire Him so intensely that we will shut out all of our conflicting desires to attain that which we want so deeply – closeness with the King. Direct your spirit, in fact God is directing your spirit to desire deeply and intensely God and all that He is. Go with it! Shut out the desire for stuff that will kill you – that will kill all of us!