James 4:13-17

James 4:13-17
¹³ 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.” ¹⁴ 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. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.

This NOT saying we don't make plans.  All to often Christians say, "God, this is my plan.  Rubber stamp it and make it happen.".  We must seek His will and see if our plans fit.  If they don't we need to get with God's plan.

¹⁷ If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.

Have you ever felt like the Lord was prodding you about something and you did not obey?  Perhaps your reasoning is that other people are doing (____) and their Christian walk seems fine.  Or the fact that other Christians are not doing (_____) and their Christian walks seems fine.  Or perhaps it comes down to a choice and the better one is not the one you wish to do.

These are the practical day to day decisions the we as Christians must make.  This is how we grow.  If we come to a point and know what is right and we don't do it, we sin.

May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit, brothers and sisters. Amen.