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For I know the plans I have for you,declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jer 29:11 |
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Dear
Friend,
If you do not already have a habit of gathering daily manna the first thing in the morning (we can look at the example given to us in Exodus 16 and find the pattern for make it a habit. Establish your life and your schedule to allow you the necessary time to do your daily collection first thing every morning to give you the strength to make it through the day. And remember that today’s manna will not be sufficient for tomorrow; tomorrow’s manna must be collected tomorrow morning. Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Today's Passage : Today's Passage :Man Proposes, God Disposes Bible Verse:James 4:11-17 (NASB) "Do not speak against one another, brethren. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and to destroy; but who are you who judge your neighbor? 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." Message:
As we saw previously, there is a profound difference between criticism and correction. Pride is the root of the critical spirit in the second paragraph of James 4 (vss. 11-12), and pride is also the source of the quarrels and conflicts in the first paragraph (vss. 1-10). It should come as no surprise that the problem in the third paragraph (vss. 13-17) also stems from the same soil: Come now, you who say, ”Today or tomorrow, we shall go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.”
still small voice Elijah
The still small voice
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 shall 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.
James is not saying that it is wrong to make plans. The wisdom of planning is illustrated throughout Scripture. There is truth in the saying, “He who fails to plan plans to fail.” The problem with the person James has in mind is that his business plans completely exclude God. He has the illusion that he can manipulate the variables of the future without taking the existence or will of God into account.
“Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.” There are too many uncertainties to presume against the future. The circumstances of our lives are held together by thin threads; our carefully laid plans can be upset by any number of unforeseen events. Furthermore, “You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.”
Like the wisdom literature of the Old Testament, James counsels us to live with an ongoing awareness of the brevity of life. “So teach us to number our days, that we may present to Thee a heart of wisdom” (Ps. 90:12). “All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it” (Isa. 40:6-7). Those who fail to reckon with this truth foolishly live and plan as though they will never die.
Dr. Boa is devoted to a ministry of relational evangelism and discipleship, teaching, writing, and speaking. He holds a B.S. in astronomy from Case Institute of Technology, a Th.M. from Dallas Theological Seminary, a Ph.D. from New York University, and a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in England. I highly recommend a visit to his website, KenBoa.org, which is filled with free videos, written commentary, newsletters, etc.
Meditation : Prayer : Oh Lord as I face creation Let me see with eyes made clear By Your promise of salvation, Never to return to fear........Amen |
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