James 4:15-17
King James Version (KJV)
For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
If your confidence is in your own strength and might, let me tell you it will fail. If your confidence is on human intellect alone, it will fail. If it is on money, it will surely fail. If it is on military might or power, it will fail.If it is on people, it will fail too.If it is on spiritual powers other than Christ's it will fail miserably. You may still be boasting in these, but your rejoicing will come to end.This is not what we were made to be. Good was meant to be formed in you. All good is in Christ alone. All good things has been placed on Christ by the Father in Heaven.If Christ is fully formed in us, all good things we would inherit. But, how would you know what is good, if good is not formed in you. For you to know what is good, good must be formed in you first. You can't guess what is good. You will have to experience what is good in your life first, before you can do what is good in your life. We can't be playing the guessing game with what is good.
Doing God's will on earth is the best thing you could do. But, how can you do God's will, if Christ is not formed in you. All of God's will is in Christ alone. If we do God's will, we will have Chrstformation in us. If we totally do God's will, we will have full Christformation in us.You know that you should do God's will on earth, but you end up doing your own selfish will. Doing our own selfish will is the same as doing the Devil's will because selfish will or ambition comes from the sinful nature of the Devil in us. You have not put to death the misdeeds of the sinful nature of the Devil in you. How will God's will be done in you or through you if you havent put to death the sinful nature of the Devil in you? The very thing that you have depended or relied on from the sinful nature of the Devil in you will fail you miserably. These are the acts that you could have depended or trusted upon and they will fail you in the end because the Devil's end is coming soon too!
Galatians 5:19-21
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
There will be no Christformation in you, if you keep depending on the sinful nature of the Devil in you with these deplorable acts.
