James 4

Saturday, March 9, 2013

James 4

Sometimes a Bible verse is just pointed, you know?

"13 Come now, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we shall go to such and such a town, spend a year there, trade, and come off with a profit!' 14 You have no idea what kind of life will be yours tomorrow.  You are a vapor that appears briefly and vanishes.  15  Instead of saying, 'If the Lord wills it, we shall live to do this or that,' 16 all you can do is make arrogant and pretentious claims."

I got the reminder in a less Biblical and pointed way from a friend recently.  And I've been making the joke for over a year now.  "If I did a better job of listening to Him, perhaps God wouldn't have to leave me with only one option all the time."

I have been beating myself up a lot recently about job-wise, personal life-wise, and service I should be doing in my community why I am not doing all of my plans.  The main reason being that they keep changing, so how can I work steadily and successfully on one?

So I suppose I am being told that I need to take a moment and really listen to God to see what He wants me to do - what, if He suffers me to live until tomorrow, is the reason He kept me here on Earth.

God grant me the strength to hear it.