Believers Are Sinners Still
James 4:1-2
We like to play the blame game, but from where do these things come? (James 1:14, 16, 17) The believer knows this warring is from sin in our members (Romans 7:20-23). The apostles only strove with each other when they coveted who should be greatest (Galatians 5:2). When the LORD brought the Israelites into the land of Canaan he did not completely cast out the enemy, that he might prove his people. The Lord is pleased to leave the enemy of sin in the believer that he might prove to the believer our constant need of the God of all-sufficient grace. A believer says, “Truth, wars and fightings come even of my own lusts that war in my members.”