“Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don't have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn't yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it.”
~James 4:1-2
“Better a dry crust with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting, with strife.”
~Proverbs 17:1 (NIV)
Back a few years ago when my husband and I decided to put forth the effort to have a godly marriage, something really interesting happened to me and I'll never forget it. We had just had a fight and I was still fuming from it and I yelled out in frustration to God, "Why does there have to be so much strife?!?!" Right away I noticed something strange because I never use the word “strife,” so it really made me pay attention to that word.
That day, I looked up things about strife and I did a word study on it. I found out that the root word for strife comes from the same root word for pride. Wow, that hit me like a ton of bricks. Up to that point, I had not seen my arguing as a pride issue. I knew God was talking to me and my life changed after that day. I am so happy that God loves to make things new and He teaches us so many things.
~Jeri Heintz
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