#19
James 4:13-17
¶ Come now, you who say,
“Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.
You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
Instead, you ought to say,
“If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
{{{ the one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, To him it is sin.
These should be scary words to the believer of Christ Jesus.
To know and not do??????
You can set in church Sunday after Sunday gathering all the information you can about the Lord and His life, and your life in Him He has offered you.
You can repeat His commandments, and quote His word,
But if after gathering all this information you are not acting upon them (doing what you now know is right) to you it is sin.
Rather simple to grasp, isn’t it?
You can make plans for tomorrow we will do this and that, and make a profit.
And by doing so you show your arrogance, and pride.
For by doing such you are not asking and waiting upon the Lord for direction, you are stating this is the way it will be.
But you do not know what tomorrow holds for you, the Lord may have other plans for you and your life.
But out of your foolish arrogant pride you will miss out on what the Lord has for you.
Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.
You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
What we ought to say,
“If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil. }}}
think about it.