Do Not Boast of Tomorrow
13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.” 14You 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.
15Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.” 16As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil. 17Therefore, whoever knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
Notice James refers to plans that men make, and from beginning to end there is no mention of God!
Spurgeon reminds us that great men die from small things and life is short.
“There are a thousand gates to death; and, though some seem to be narrow wickets, many souls have passed through them. Men have been choked by a grape stone, killed by a tile falling from the roof of a house, poisoned by a drop, carried off by a whiff of foul air. I know not what there is that is too little to slay the greatest king. It is a marvel that man lives at all.” (Spurgeon)
Yes, we are but a vapor, a mist, here today, gone tomorrow.
Who will remember us?
Make plans, but include The Lord!
Try not to be boastful, but instead be grateful.
Do the right thing!
You ask, what is the right thing ?
Ask God!
Blessings, David
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