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James 3:16

For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.


Have you ever been confused about something? I know it's a stupid question because we have all been confused at one time or another.
We are confused if we should buy that car or house.
We are confused about our jobs and if we should leave or stay.
We are confused about simple things like where should we go and eat today.

But you know what, there is one who was never confused, and that someone is Jesus. You never read about Jesus being confused about anything.
"Well He is God and knows all things, why would He be confused?"
This is true, but He was also man and had all the same traits we had, including the ability to be confused. Yet He never was.
Why? The answer is in today's devotional verse.

For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.

Jesus never thought about Himself and always put others first, after God.
Jesus never worried about if He should buy a chariot to get around in, or even a home to live in.

  • Matt 8:20 And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head."


    • Sure Jesus may have liked to have the latest and hottest chariot to ride around in, or even a cool house, and His justification would be that others could come to Him so that He could minister to them.
    Yet Jesus knew that God had better plans and that these things would only hinder His ministry and even His relationship with God. Therefore He chose to go without rather then feed His own fleshly desires.

    So next time you are confused about something, remember this next verse.

  • 1 Cor 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.


    • Then ask God if you have any envy and self-seeking that may be causing this confusion and to reveal it to you. Then ask God to help you deal with it and the confusion.

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