“For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
The Comparison
James names a specific, direct connection here, envying and strife, confusion and every evil work, worth holding as honest, sobering claim about envy’s actual, wider consequences, not contained to private feeling alone but genuinely, actually producing this described, broader disorder.
This is worth examining against however much you have assumed your own private envy remains genuinely contained, affecting only your own internal experience without this further, honest connection to actual, wider confusion and evil, rather than this verse’s own direct, sobering claim about envy’s real reach.
Notice every evil work, comprehensive language, worth holding as needed seriousness, this verse not naming envy as merely unpleasant but as genuinely, actually connected to this described, wide-ranging harm, worth taking this connection with real, honest seriousness in your own life.
Consider today honestly what confusion or wider harm your own envy may have actually, genuinely produced, not contained to private feeling alone, and bring this honest examination to God today, trusting James’s own sobering claim as worth taking with real, actual seriousness.
Choose Contentment
- Examine honestly what wider confusion or harm your own envy may have actually produced.
- Consider envy as connected to genuine, broader disorder, not merely contained, private feeling.
- Take this verse’s sobering claim seriously today, addressing envy before it produces further harm.
Prayer
Lord, where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. Show me honestly what wider harm my own envy has produced, and help me address it now. Amen.
Carry this today
Envy is genuinely connected to wider confusion and harm, not contained to private feeling alone.