James 4:13
‘Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”’
‘Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”’
In these words James is challenging boastfulness which is something he refers to in verse 16. The attitude that declares, ‘I am in charge of my planned future and God can tag along if God wants.’ Now, James is not against forward planning but rather he wants his listeners to humbly factor in today what God’s will and purpose may be for their tomorrows.
Reflection
Is God only Lord on Sundays and not our other ‘todays’?
QUOTE FOR TODAY
[People] were able to keep singing, keep praying and keep showing up at worship services because their hope was anchored in God rather than in themselves.
(Glenn Packiam, Worship and the World to Come, p. 179)