James, a Servant of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, posed this very question to some Christians over in James 4:1! He then answered his question to these believers in a question form by saying to them... "Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? Another word that's used for evil desires is "LUST"! Lust is simply "having, but wanting More and then more on top of more". More possessions, more power, more wealth, more status, more acknowledgement, more notoriety and so forth and so on, and when more is not obtained, a person will fight another to get it.
More specifically, fights, wars, disharmony and Conflict occurs when one person differences clash with another, when different beliefs, difference desires, different impulses and different wants don't come in agreement with ours, conflict and confrontation is inevitable, because of a person's overly eager (and out of Control) desire (lust) for power and the need to be right about everything and the need to make others conform to their way of thinking and thought process.
No one person knows everything, everybody can learn from somebody it's a matter of walking in humility and facing the truth about your own inadequacies. The bottom line is this, and it must be faced, CONFLICT is always the result of our Human Imperfections!
So...."What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you?" and here's the Solution according to James 4:7 (NKJV) "Therefore submit to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you"
-- Be Strong!
Pastor V.
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