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James 4:13-17
James 4:13-17
What is your relationship to the will of God today? Well there are only three possible relationships that we can have according to James chapter 4 verses 13 through 17. We can ignore God’s will, we can disobey God’s will, or we can obey God’s will and enjoy God’s blessings.
“Come now, [says James 4:13] come now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we’ll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the next day. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanishes away. For you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
Now many people ignore the will of God. Here’s a business man who says, “Alright, today or tomorrow we’re going to this city, we’ll set up our business, we going to buy and sell, we’ll stay about a year, we’ll make a profit and then we’ll move off someplace else.” And James laughs and says, “Wait a minute you’re going to stay for year, you can’t even be sure of tomorrow! Will you be alive a year from now? Your life is just a vapor that passes away, it’s temporary and you can’t predict the future.” So, don’t ignore the will of God. Don’t live as though God does not have a plan. Your life is brief and you don’t know what’s coming tomorrow.
Now there are those who know the will of God and won’t do it. Verse 17 of James 4, “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and do it not, to him it is sin.” That’s a bad thing, to know the will of God and deliberately disobey it. You and I should be living in verse 15, “For you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that.” Sometimes when we’re writing a letter we say, now the Lord willing we’ll be doing this or that and that’s the way we ought to live.
The will of God is a great experience of the love of God. Because the will of God comes from the heart of God. We don’t have to be afraid of the future, we plan for the future, but we live with every day saying from our heart, “Not my will, Thy will be done.”
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What is your relationship to the will of God today? Well there are only three possible relationships that we can have according to James chapter 4 verses 13 through 17. We can ignore God’s will, we can disobey God’s will, or we can obey God’s will and enjoy God’s blessings.
“Come now, [says James 4:13] come now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we’ll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the next day. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanishes away. For you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil. Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
Now many people ignore the will of God. Here’s a business man who says, “Alright, today or tomorrow we’re going to this city, we’ll set up our business, we going to buy and sell, we’ll stay about a year, we’ll make a profit and then we’ll move off someplace else.” And James laughs and says, “Wait a minute you’re going to stay for year, you can’t even be sure of tomorrow! Will you be alive a year from now? Your life is just a vapor that passes away, it’s temporary and you can’t predict the future.” So, don’t ignore the will of God. Don’t live as though God does not have a plan. Your life is brief and you don’t know what’s coming tomorrow.
Now there are those who know the will of God and won’t do it. Verse 17 of James 4, “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and do it not, to him it is sin.” That’s a bad thing, to know the will of God and deliberately disobey it. You and I should be living in verse 15, “For you ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this or that.” Sometimes when we’re writing a letter we say, now the Lord willing we’ll be doing this or that and that’s the way we ought to live.
The will of God is a great experience of the love of God. Because the will of God comes from the heart of God. We don’t have to be afraid of the future, we plan for the future, but we live with every day saying from our heart, “Not my will, Thy will be done.”