- Day 8 -
Is Your Wisdom From Above?
Do you have bitter envy and selfish ambition that wants to build up something for yourself on this earth? James 3:15 says, “Such wisdom does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual and of the devil.” Envious people go to the point that if another has something they want they will say, “I am going to get it, I am going to use my efforts, my strengths, the gifts I have, to become what they are, but I am going to do an even better job. I have selfish ambition to take my energies and pursue it.” This is the wisdom of the world and James says, don’t deceive yourselves, don’t deny it, it is unspiritual; it is not from heaven it is from the earth. And worst of all it is from the pit, it is from the devil himself motivating you to get you off course.
The enemy comes to build up the wisdom of the world in you, which is foolishness in Yahveh’s sight. He starts using your weakness and strengths to mold you with selfish ambition, envy, covetousness, greed, and the lusts of the eyes, and the pride of life so that you get off course. Your course is simply this; that you would be born in order to become righteous and holy through faith in Yahshua’s sacrificial blood and its redeeming power. Filled with the life of His Spirit you will bear fruits of righteousness for His praise, honor, and glory.
We were not put on this earth for anything but Yahveh’s good pleasure and it is His good pleasure to give us the kingdom but He is sovereign; He cannot give the kingdom to those who are unspiritual and unrighteous. He cannot. It will be the home of righteousness. In His mercy and by His spirit, we can still work out our salvation, doing the righteous acts of the saints that will clothe us in the befitting attire that welcomes us as His Bride.
Make no mistake, no greedy, idolater, lustful, immoral, or sensual person is going to enter the kingdom of Yahveh. He says, “Make no mistake about it, don’t let anybody lie to you and deceive you, for on such people the wrath of Yahveh comes.” He has given us a time of life on this earth in order that we can successfully make pilgrimage into a timeless forever with Him. Don’t be a foolish, unspiritual, or unwise human being.
James continues, “For where you have envy and selfish ambition there you find disorder and every evil practice.” (James 3:16) Do you know why? Selfish ambition means you have got a god and it is called self and the god is big and it says, “I want, I must have, I will have. I will get,” and so every disorder and every evil practice comes because your god is not Yahveh. James chapter 4:1 says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don’t get it, you kill (meaning you get angry because Yahshua said if you have anger toward your brother it is the same as if you killed him), you covet but you cannot have what you want, you quarrel and you fight. You do not have because you do not ask Yahveh and when you do ask you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your personal pleasures. You adulterous people! Don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward Yahveh? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy to Yahveh. Or do you think that the Scripture says with out reason (or we can say do you think the Scripture lies) when it says, “That the spirit Yahveh caused to live in us envies intensely for what Yahveh wants.” (James 4:1-5)
Yahveh is a jealous Elohim (God). He created us for His good pleasure. He is jealous when we are adulterers; meaning we love something else more than Him. We take what He has given us from our breath, our lives, our gifts, our energies, and our talents and we provoke Him to jealously because we spend it on ourselves, for the wisdom of the world, to gratify our flesh and our selfish ambition.