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FROM whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

-James 4:1-4

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A great Thursday morning. God woke me up with a sense of purpose, not like the past couple of mornings. I had the time and energy to make my bed and fold my blanket as neatly as possible (that's always a good sign). :)

Then, not knowing what to read from my Bible lead me to James 4.

Do i love the world? I know i love cameras... i know i love fast cars. Sometimes that's all i think about to motivate me to finish school this semester. I said, "Andrey if you're done with the semester you can finally get a new car and drive it to work." I've always wanted to get a BMW 3 series or a fast 1 series. Or the alternative would be to keep my old car and finally be able to get the 'camera gears' that i've always wanted.

Oh Lord, please forgive my fleshly desires. Please help me to renew my commitment to You today.

(Something i can meditate upon as i go through my day)

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"Her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities... In the cup which she hat filled fill to her double. How much she hat glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her. And her kings of the earth, who have comitted fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, ...saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour thy judgment come." Revelation 18:5-10

Great Controversy: Desolation of the Earth

"The rich prided themselves upon their superiority to those who were less favored; but they had obtained their riches by violation of the law of God. They had neglected to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to deal justly, and to love mercy. They had sought to exalt themselves and to obtain the homage of their fellow creatures. Now they are stripped of all that made them great and are left destitute and defenseless. They look with terror upon the destruction of the idols which they preferred before their Maker. They have sold their souls for earthly riches and enjoyments, and have not sought to become rich toward God. The result is, their lives are a failure; their pleasures are now turned to gall, their treasures to corruption. The gain of a lifetime is swept away in a moment. The rich bemoan the destruction of their grand houses, the scattering of their gold and silver. But their lamentations are silenced by the fear that they temselves are to perish with their idols." (Ellen White GC p. 654)

"A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations, He will plead with all flesh; He will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD"

-Jeremiah 25:31