Having put the question of God’s rightful place in our lives into perspective, James makes a suggestion for how to apply that perspective to our current reality. The powerful and privileged in this world will find that what they have invested their lives into may suddenly become worthless. God’s kingdom requires a different kind of posture - we don’t make it happen; we simply allow it to be so. And God’s Kingdom has an entirely different concept of virtue. Things like honesty, mercy and compassion. We must live our lives in the light of the coming Kingdom.
