Include God
“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4:13-17.
The letter of James like all of the Bible is written to believers. And believers in their planning should include God. As James notes we should be saying,
“If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
We should not be bragging about our plans because even the best laid plans of man can fall apart in an instant. We do not know what the day or even the next hour brings. That is why we should not brag.
Bragging about how much money or profit we are going to make according to James is evil. If we boast it should be in the name of the Lord.
We must remember it is the Lord who made us. That it is He who should be directing our paths in all that we do.
If you consider yourself a believer in Christ Jesus do you include the Lord in all that you do?
Please think about it.
“Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.
Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4:13-17.
The letter of James like all of the Bible is written to believers. And believers in their planning should include God. As James notes we should be saying,
“If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
We should not be bragging about our plans because even the best laid plans of man can fall apart in an instant. We do not know what the day or even the next hour brings. That is why we should not brag.
Bragging about how much money or profit we are going to make according to James is evil. If we boast it should be in the name of the Lord.
We must remember it is the Lord who made us. That it is He who should be directing our paths in all that we do.
If you consider yourself a believer in Christ Jesus do you include the Lord in all that you do?
Please think about it.
