How does God want us to use our resources? That’s the question we want to zero in on today. God wants to speak to us, and we need to be ready to listen, even if it’s uncomfortable. They’re the problem.īut whenever we come to Scripture, we want to see what’s there for us. And most of us don’t think of ourselves as rich, do we? We’re always looking at someone else who has more, and we say, Go after them, James. We want to say it’s their problem, not ours. If we can dodge this barrage, we want to. Do you think this letter is written to all “rich” people ever, to rich people in that time and place, or just to the rich people who were guilty of exploitation? The deeper question is: What are we going to do with this? James really lays into these people, and it makes us uncomfortable.
