Give me Jesus

DEVOTION
JAMES
GIVE ME JESUS
James 4:1-3
4:1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? 2 You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
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This is one area I do not think I have any problem with at all. I do not fight and quarrel over material goods with others at all. Do I have some desires for things I do not have? I might think from time to time how it would be to have something I don’t, but I would never get myself into this kind of situation. I am content with what I have because I know God has supplied it for me. If he thought I needed to have more he would see to it I had it. I don’t really ask him for things anyway. Every time I do ask him for something it is what he wants me to do. All I have is from his hand. I am confident I do not ask God for things with the wrong motive. What good would that do? He is not going to provide it anyway. No, I ask for his will, that is the right motive, and he has always gone above and beyond that. He has always provided things for me to accomplish his will. He has given me so much so I could be the man he desires me to be. He has given me work, so I was able to provide for my family. He gave me a house so I could use it for his will. He has given me so much. How could I not give him all the credit and praise for his provisions? I do not want anything God would not allow me to have. It is that simply, yet I have more than I deserve. I have more stuff than I need. True I have too many hobbies, to many things, but He has allowed me to have them. He has always provided for them. Yet they do not take precedent over my desire to serve him through teaching, preaching and writing about his word. This is my first and foremost activity, then serving my family. He has always provided so I may serve them. How could I ever seek things on my own? How could I ever ask for things for my own pleasure? I know he will use what he has given me for his Kingdom, if not today, tomorrow. I am open for whatever he has in store for me. I will go and do whatever he desires, not what I desire. I covet nothing but Jesus. Give me Jesus.