Look here, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit." How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it's here a little while, then it's gone. What you ought to say is, "If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that." Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil.
(James 4:13-16)
How is it that we allow the world to shape who we are so much so that we position ourselves contrary to the Word of God? Walking according to the unseen is not easy to say the least. That is why we have God’s Word to lead and guide us, for we can know the truth today and forget it tomorrow but to follow in His ways we must humble ourselves daily and seek Him through desperation and discipline so that we may become the people we were made to be.
For I fear not many realize the battle they are in and cost of not preparing. They hear with their physical ears while their spirit slumbers. If a man is overweight and wants to become healthy does he not seek out counsel on diet and exercise, does he not listen to what his doctor is saying and then make changes to become healthy? And does not the same man battle his own will to eat as he always has and be less than energetic even though he now knows better? Failure is bound to happen during the transition, the question we all must face is this, do I give up or do I consider the benefits of being healthy and become even more determined that change must happen? The same is true for our spiritual health and we must be determined to fight the battle of faith! Hearing with your physical ears is fine but make sure the message reaches your spirit and then be determined that will impact the way you live so that spiritually you are made whole.
Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.
(James 4:17)
So do not boast about your plans or abilities, for to do so is to leave God out and ignore the intervention of His grace and love. For one day you will need Him and if you have been busy boasting about your own capabilities it would be like blindfolding yourself and then trying to cross a busy intersection. That day is today and the time is now for we do not know what tomorrow holds.
"So fear the LORD and serve Him wholeheartedly. Put away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they lived beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD alone. But if you refuse to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD."
(Joshua 24:14-15)
