James 4:5
Even really really smart people get a little boggle minded on how this verse is to be translated - so I won't dare touch that. Grammar and vocabulary and gender based words make it all confusing. But no matter how you translate it into English there is something so relational about this verse. There's a deep longing, a passionate yearning. Have you ever held on to something so tight - a suitcase handle, a railing, a rope, a person - that when you finally let go there's physical evidence? The handle is worn, there is a red line across your hand, blisters, or the marks of finger nails in your skin? That's the longing that's talked about in this verse - a deep, deep desire that influences and changes the structure of something. That's the longing God has for us. When I am resiting His discipline, His cultivation, His refining fire, I am resisting His love.
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