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James 4: 8-11
Creators and Guests
Host
Chad McBeam
Business Leader, Foster Advocate and Fighter of Human Trafficking, Chad enjoys hosting this podcast channel as a way to spread and highlight the great examples of those who live out their faith daily. He can also be seen on occasion on your TV or Film Screen or be heard narrating one of your books as his love of acting has stuck with him since his childhood.
Writer
Aaron Marcarelli
After getting his under-graduate degree from Cal State University San Bernardino where he played college baseball and received all American honors. he was a graduate assistant baseball coach at both Trevecca Nazarene College in Nashville, Tennessee, and at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington. He received his master’s degree in Teaching from Whitworth, with plans to someday be a head baseball coach at a university. However, God had other plans. Aaron started teaching English and History and coaching baseball and other sports at the high school level and found out how much he loves high school kids, and he has been doing that for the past 27 years. Personally, heI has been married to his wife Sharon for 32 years, they have one daughter, Amanda Parrish, who has been married to Austin Parrish for 2 years. Aaron also has two grandsons Travis age 2 ½ and Aden who is 13 months and are blessed to have another on the way due in May. Aaron loves reading, golfing, and spending time with his wife and grandkids.
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Linda Cowen
Linda Cowen of San Antonio Christian School is our gracious and talented art designer for the But God, weekday morning devotional series.
What is ...But God?
A weekday morning devotional series written by Aaron Marcarelli and hosted by Chad McBeam
Good morning and welcome to today's But God weekday morning devotional. We open the Bible to James 4 verses 8 through 10 this morning. Come close to God, and He will come close to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded. Be miserable and mourn and weep.
Chad McBeam:Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into gloom. Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and he will exalt you. In these verses, James reminds us what it means to be a follower of Christ. It's not about us, it's about him. Our lives as followers of Christ must be a complete submission to the will of God.
Chad McBeam:Therefore, if we are happy living in the world, if we are comfortable living in the world, and if we don't have to sacrifice anything by living in the world, then how is that, being a follower of Christ? This is what James is explaining when he says, be miserable and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into gloom. Our joy, our happiness, and our love must come from Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit. I know that when my happiness and fulfillment of life is based on what has happened to me or what I have accomplished, then I'm not satisfied.
Chad McBeam:I'm not happy. I'm not fulfilled. Those things are earthly things and not heavenly things. So, as a true follower of Christ, I must always put serving Christ first. When I do that, I have fulfilled what Jesus has called me to do.
Chad McBeam:In Matthew 2819 through 20 it says, Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to follow all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always to the end of the age. Dear Lord, I thank you for all the blessings you bestowed on me. Forgive me for not putting you first. Forgive me for seeking the things of this world.
Chad McBeam:Help me and my fellow followers to always seek you first. Help us to always put your will first. Help us to use the tools of the Holy Spirit that dwell within us. And we pray all these things in Jesus' precious name, amen. Shalom.
Chad McBeam:Shalom blessings. Press in and press on.