If the Lord will

Jas 4:14 Whereas ye know NOT what shall be on the morrow.

For what is your life?

It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Jas 4:15 For that ye ought to say,

If the Lord will,

we shall live,

and do this,

or that.



Our lives are a vapor. Seen for a little bit, then gone.


Let's think about it for a moment- the earth is approximately 6000 years old, divide that by the Biblical average lifespan of 72 years and you come up with about 83 generations of people. Most of us can remember our grandparents, some of us can remember our great grandparents, less of us can remember our great great grandparents, and almost none of us can remember our great, great, great grandparents- five generations and beyond that there is no real remembrance of those who have lived before us- our relatives. Five generations and that's pushing it. Five out of 83 generations 78 unknown generations. People truly are as a vapor. The millions and millions of people who have lived in the last 6000 years are mostly unknown- completely unknown- they were as vapor they vanished away. We too will vanish away. We too will be as a vapor- here and then gone.


It's true, we ought to say…. If the Lord wills we shall live and do this or that.


The Lord's will, not if we will, but if the Lord wills.


Why would we want to do ANYTHING the Lord doesn't will for us to do? Why? Why would we ever not want the Lord's will to be done?


We are a willful people.


We have our own wills and believe that nothing matters but our wills- what we want, what we desire, what we need, what we obsess over, what we long for. We have ideas, we have thoughts, we have minds of our own that we believe MUST be allowed to be exercised freely. We believe we should indulge our lusts no matter what form they come in. Denying ourselves anything makes us feel deprived and we either shrug it off or we play martyr with it, pitying ourselves for the deprivation and wanting others to pity us even in the form of admiration.


If God wills should be first and foremost, allowing for Him to direct our paths in the way HE would have us go. This doesn't mean we sit around waiting for direction. It means we make our plans for this and that and we acknowledge that in all God's will be done. If it's not God's will then the plans we make may be altered and we need to understand that it's for the best even if we DON'T understand why it is for the best. To presume we know what is best for ourselves is to assume that we are our own creator. Our true Creator knows us better than we will ever know ourselves.


At best we can determine to choose and believe in our Creator. We can choose to follow our Creator's plan for us. We can pray God's will be done and then we can have faith that God's will is being done- no matter if we comprehend it at all in the least little bit.


People might think it's crazy to believe that when bad things happen it's God's will, just as when the miraculous occurs. It's not crazy to believe that our lives- the good, the bad, the horrific, the wonderful, the amazing, the miraculous, the awful- are for reasons beyond our comprehension. We don't get to play God. We don't get to have all the answers. God does NOT have to answer to US! We have to answer to God.


May God's will be done now and always in my life. I know I won't always like the ups and downs my life will take, sometimes I'll hate the things happening in my life, but I can't lose the faith that God's will is being done. If I lose that faith there is no hope and without hope nothing makes sense at all.


Jas 4:14 Whereas ye know NOT what shall be on the morrow.

For what is your life?

It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Jas 4:15 For that ye ought to say,

If the Lord will,

we shall live,

and do this,

or that.


By His Grace.


Amen.