Why don't we have peace?

Looks like the answer is right here:

James 4:1-3

1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members? 2 You lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Again God's word is so simple. Why don't we have peace? Because of our own selfish desires for pleasure that is what verse 1 tells us and when you sit right down and think about it...it is very true! Verse 2 tells us we lust and we murder and we covet and guess what when we can't have something we decide we ill just go and take it by force! Which is what fighting and war. Then God goes on to say we do not have because we do not ask. Does this mean God is a genie and gives us what we want all we have to do is ask? Some teach that but it is not consistant with other scriptures. When we are right with God we learn to ask for our needs and are satisfied with that. Everything else is just added blessings God adds on. Verse 3 sums it up. The reason we don't recieve is because we are asking outside God's will (amiss), we ask for our own selfish desires instead of what our needs are!!!

So you want some peace? Stay focused on God's will and you will find it!

God bless!

Tom