James 4:13-17
"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." 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16 As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. 17 Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins."
Who knows what tomorrow brings? Some people live in the future - "I will be happy when...I get married...I finish school...I get a new job... I make the following changes..." Living in the future is impossible because we are always in the present. the future is not guaranteed to us.
Our lives are like steam James tells us - steam that is visible for a moment and the is gone. We must live for the moment - live for God every moment of every day we have. Live is precious - the most precious gift we have. our choice is then - how will we use it. What will we do with this gift from God? We have this moment - let's live!
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