James 4:1-2 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
A lot of the present evil around us and in our world is from man, and not AN ACT OF GOD. The Apostle asks a very important question we must all ponder on: Where do wars, killings, stealing, armed-robbery, adulteries, deceit, wickedness,etc come from? Do you know?
It comes from MAN(yourself or your fellow man). They proceed from our LUSTS AND DESIRES, and has got nothing to do with God. The Amplified version says,
“You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your lust goes unfulfilled; so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain [the object of your envy]; so you fight and battle.”
Yeah. I tell you, that is the source of a lot of the problems we have: OUR EVIL DESIRES AND LUSTS.
Consider this:
If the leaders and the rich in society impoverish the citizens through corruption and injustice; Due to the poor economic situation there will be nothing meaningful to do, and very soon some of those citizens will pick up arms and become robbers. Through their operations one good and innocent leader is shot dead. Question: Was it God who killed him, or was it a product of the evil lusts and desires of man? You be the judge. SELAH!
GRACEFUL MORNING