Think about the last real fight you had. Not a war. Just a fight. In the kitchen, in the car, or only in your head.
“You do not have, because you do not ask.” (James 4:2, ESV)
On Sunday we opened James 4:1 to 10 together. More Grace. This week we walk back through it, one thought a day. A sermon names the truth once. The week is where you live in it.
Go under the words of that last fight and ask one question. Why? Under almost every fight is something you wanted and did not get. James saw it two thousand years ago. He asks where the fighting comes from, and then he answers his own question. It comes from inside you.
But look at the line he pulls up. You do not have, because you do not ask. Not you asked and heard no. You never asked. There was a want in you strong enough to start a fight, and it never once became a prayer.
That is the tell. You still believe in God. You have just quietly stopped living like He is in the room.
Today: Name the one thing you have been grabbing for this week. Before you reach for it again, tell Jesus about it. Just once. Out loud.