Jas 4:13 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
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.
We OUGHT to say-
IF THE LORD WILL- we shall LIVE- and DO THIS or THAT.
We ought to say that, but do we? Seriously, do we say that? Do we get up in the morning and say today I'm going to do this and that, if the Lord wills and I live to do it? Generally we just get up and get about our routine, right? Most of us have some sort of routine upon waking. Some people might get out of bed and head straight to the bathroom, others might head for the kitchen and the coffee pot. Still others might drop to the floor and begin push-ups or some other sort of exercise routine. Then you'll find others pulling on their clothes first thing. There are many different ways we can begin our days but shouldn't we begin them with God? Perhaps that's easier said than done.
So many of us just assume that because God knows everything that there is no need for us to bother about telling Him stuff He already knows. Just as many will assume God knows that they love Him so they don't have to bother telling Him that. In fact they really don't have to communicate at all with someone who knows everything, it's pointless. So then why did our Savior find it extremely necessary to pray? Why did our Savior even teach us the proper form of prayer? If we weren't to communicate with God the Father, why bother praying? We ARE to communicate with God the Father. I can already hear people saying, what's the use He never answers back. I agree-- for the most part. We do NOT get answered back as if we were talking to another person. God has in the past spoken to various people, but as a rule the majority do NOT carry on a conversation with GOD. Even some of God's most chosen people had an intercessory between them and God. Angels often played the part of intercessor relaying God's messages to those that needed to hear them.
This is where our FAITH comes into play.
We can choose to believe we have a CREATOR, a REDEEMER, A GOD the FATHER and a SON, JESUS CHRIST, or we can choose not to believe.
We choose.
We are given the choice to believe or not to believe- we will NEVER be forced to believe, never. So if someone out there reading this believes for even a moment that they'll start believing when they are made to, well, you're in for a long, long wait because God will NOT force anyone to believe in Him, it goes against all that He is.
Our God has provided enough for us to believe if we choose to, but He won't force anyone to make the choice to believe.
God requires us to live by FAITH, and faith is the SUBSTANCE of things HOPED FOR, the EVIDENCE of things NOT SEEN. This faith is necessary as a declaration to our belief.
By faith we will comprehend the necessity for us to put GOD first in all we do.
Tomorrow by the will of God I will rise up and begin my day, a day in which I desire to accomplish this and that. However, if it is NOT God's will I won't do this or that even though it's what I desire to do.
I know my life is but a vapor. I can look back at history. I can look to my mother who is aging, and to my grandmother who is but a memory, and my great grandmother who is even a further memory, and then I cannot recall at all whatsoever in anyway my great, great grandmother. I have no memories of my maternal relatives going back before my great grandmother, yet I KNOW they existed. Their lives were but vapors- they are gone even from the memory of their relatives. Our lives, all of our lives are but vapors- here and then gone.
We need God's will to be done in our lives no matter what that will is.
The vapor that our life is right now will one day be something eternally existing through the power of our Savior, through His LOVE. If we do not choose to have God guide our lives then how can we have hope of eternity?
Our Savior came to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom- Eternity in God.
Truly we need to make all the plans we want to make, but do so with the understanding that they will only be accomplished if it's the Lord's Will. Why would we ever want to do anything that He doesn't will? Is our will more important than His? NEVER. Help us LORD to NEVER choose our Will over YOURS. Guide us, help us! PLEASE LORD, PLEASE.
Your will in our LIVES, always!
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.
We OUGHT to say-
IF THE LORD WILL- we shall LIVE- and DO THIS or THAT.
We ought to say that, but do we? Seriously, do we say that? Do we get up in the morning and say today I'm going to do this and that, if the Lord wills and I live to do it? Generally we just get up and get about our routine, right? Most of us have some sort of routine upon waking. Some people might get out of bed and head straight to the bathroom, others might head for the kitchen and the coffee pot. Still others might drop to the floor and begin push-ups or some other sort of exercise routine. Then you'll find others pulling on their clothes first thing. There are many different ways we can begin our days but shouldn't we begin them with God? Perhaps that's easier said than done.
So many of us just assume that because God knows everything that there is no need for us to bother about telling Him stuff He already knows. Just as many will assume God knows that they love Him so they don't have to bother telling Him that. In fact they really don't have to communicate at all with someone who knows everything, it's pointless. So then why did our Savior find it extremely necessary to pray? Why did our Savior even teach us the proper form of prayer? If we weren't to communicate with God the Father, why bother praying? We ARE to communicate with God the Father. I can already hear people saying, what's the use He never answers back. I agree-- for the most part. We do NOT get answered back as if we were talking to another person. God has in the past spoken to various people, but as a rule the majority do NOT carry on a conversation with GOD. Even some of God's most chosen people had an intercessory between them and God. Angels often played the part of intercessor relaying God's messages to those that needed to hear them.
This is where our FAITH comes into play.
We can choose to believe we have a CREATOR, a REDEEMER, A GOD the FATHER and a SON, JESUS CHRIST, or we can choose not to believe.
We choose.
We are given the choice to believe or not to believe- we will NEVER be forced to believe, never. So if someone out there reading this believes for even a moment that they'll start believing when they are made to, well, you're in for a long, long wait because God will NOT force anyone to believe in Him, it goes against all that He is.
Our God has provided enough for us to believe if we choose to, but He won't force anyone to make the choice to believe.
God requires us to live by FAITH, and faith is the SUBSTANCE of things HOPED FOR, the EVIDENCE of things NOT SEEN. This faith is necessary as a declaration to our belief.
By faith we will comprehend the necessity for us to put GOD first in all we do.
Tomorrow by the will of God I will rise up and begin my day, a day in which I desire to accomplish this and that. However, if it is NOT God's will I won't do this or that even though it's what I desire to do.
I know my life is but a vapor. I can look back at history. I can look to my mother who is aging, and to my grandmother who is but a memory, and my great grandmother who is even a further memory, and then I cannot recall at all whatsoever in anyway my great, great grandmother. I have no memories of my maternal relatives going back before my great grandmother, yet I KNOW they existed. Their lives were but vapors- they are gone even from the memory of their relatives. Our lives, all of our lives are but vapors- here and then gone.
We need God's will to be done in our lives no matter what that will is.
The vapor that our life is right now will one day be something eternally existing through the power of our Savior, through His LOVE. If we do not choose to have God guide our lives then how can we have hope of eternity?
Our Savior came to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom- Eternity in God.
Truly we need to make all the plans we want to make, but do so with the understanding that they will only be accomplished if it's the Lord's Will. Why would we ever want to do anything that He doesn't will? Is our will more important than His? NEVER. Help us LORD to NEVER choose our Will over YOURS. Guide us, help us! PLEASE LORD, PLEASE.
Your will in our LIVES, always!
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