In this passage, we learn how easy it is to forget God in the everyday activities of life, to be consumed with worry, and how to bring God back to the center of everything.

When we have disordered loves, we make even good things into ultimate things, which is idolatry. This produces selfish ambition and dissension. Rightly ordered love leads to peace in life. 

In James 3 we learn about the power of our words and the kinds of words that can speak speak life and healing on others. 

In James 2, the author says that true faith produces the fruit of love in our lives toward God and people. Philipp Melanchthon, who was the protégé of Martin Luther, put it perfectly - “We’re saved by faith alone, but not by a faith that remains alone.”

In this passage, we see how the church forms as a community of justice and mercy.

In this passage, we see what it means to be filled with God’s spirit and why we need to pray for it.