Day 29
BIBLE READING: James 4:11-17
How much do you know about what will happen tomorrow? We sometimes make a list of the things we are going to do tomorrow. While it is good to plan ahead, we need to remember that as Christians our lives are in God's hands. What he has planned for us, even for today, may be very different from what we have thought about. Are we willing to let God have this way today?
James says we are just like the world if we make our plans and leave God out of them. Proverbs 3:5, 6, tells us what a Christian should do. 'Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths.'
Isn't it easy to make our own plans and then ask God to bless them? Wouldn't it be better to quietly ask God to guide us in the making of those plans. Then we must be ready to have our plans changed or interrupted if that is what God wants at any point in our day or in our lives?
James says in the last verse of this chapter that a Christian very often know what he ought to do, but doesn't do it. That is sin. Those are strong words, but James is speaking under the inspiration of the Spirit of God. Therefore what he says is absolutely true, now and always. Life is short. While we live here on earth, the most important thing in our lives ought to be the will of God.
A THOUGHT:
God says, 'I will always guide you and satisfy you with good things.'(Isaiah 58:11)
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