Only when we admit our desires can God work with us to meet them, delay them, encourage us to give them up, or whatever would be helpful. But we have to own up to them before he can do something with them. James names some of the consequences of not taking responsibility for our desires: “You want something but don’t get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask