Wednesday 30/1/13

James 4:13-15 ESV

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that."

We all take for granted that tomorrow will come, and we will all live until old age. But how many of us will actually live to see our 60? And we all know some people who died suddenly, their tomorrow had never come. Our lives are like a mist that suddenly appears and then vanishes. Our lives are in God's hand. Therefore, boasting about our tomorrow or thinking about our old age without considering His will is vain and evil.

Instead, we ought to consider God in our plan for tomorrow and old age. Worry not, God promises ripe old age for those who love Him and obey His commandments. Indeed, in the Bible most people who love Him lived very long. They only died early if God wanted to take them away so they can rest and avoid the evil days to come. Therefore, we should acknowledge Him, seek His guidance and obey His commandments in all our doings and plannings. That helps us avoid vain thinking, shun evils and give us blessings. God promises to make straight our path.