Considering Our Motives When Speaking (TMF:1158)

Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Peace to Live By: Considering Our Motives When Speaking (TMF:1158) - Daniel Litton
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       A person may want to have a problem-free life (don’t we all), but certainly that is not God’s will. James told us, and warned us, “You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions” (James 4:3, ESV). Just as we shouldn’t ask God according to wrong motives, we should not take his Word and believe on it for wrong things either. So, when we have something we want for our ourselves, which we believe is God’s will for us to have, how do we speak God’s will over our lives? How do we speak the Scriptures? Let’s say you want to have good success with a person of the opposite sex, and eventually get married someday. Well, the key here is that you go through the Bible and you find verses that talk about this matter. Let’s say we go to 1 Corinthians chapter 7. That’s a good place to go when discussing marriage. Verse 2 says, “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband” (ESV). So, here, in the most basic sense, we learn that if a person feels that he or she needs to be married in life, that it is in fact God’s will for that person to get married. That’s pretty encouraging.