We continue our series in James to learn from James 4:7-10, in which James in several short sentences approaches sin remediation with a series of strong exhortations, urging us to submit and draw near to God, resist the devil, cleanse our hearts and purify our hands, turn our laughter to mourning, and humble ourselves before the Lord.

Purity of heart is to will one thing, and so submission to God is not partial. We know that what you feed grows; we should, in the famous words of John Owen, be killing sin or it will be killing us. It can destroy our lives and change the way we see the world. This is the double-minded danger, and the answer is to humbly come to God, knowing the sorrowful weight of our sin but all the more knowing that with God there is grace upon grace.