“WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?”

James 4:13-17                               (ESV)

[13] Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”—[14] yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. “WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?” For YOU ARE A MIST that appears for a LITTLE TIME and then VANISHED. [15] Instead you ought to say, “If the LORD wills, we will live and do this or that.” [16] As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. [17] So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Our minds are unique in that we tend to have the impression that everyone has the same thoughts that we have, when reality proves that the way one person responds to a matter might be completely different from another person’s reaction.  We all have our own bodies, and we all have our own mind and Spirit that guides our bodies to demonstrate what we are thinking and feeling.  As I am maturing, I find that the “need for speed” that I have operated with for most of my life is not nearly as important as I once thought.  Some refer to this as “growing up”?  But what is it that causes a man to ponder the deeper things of life as his time on earth nears completion?

There are people I know who have experienced a miscarriage of a child.  That Creation is just as viable (capable of growing or developing) as I ever have been.  ALMIGHTY GOD, in HIS VAST WISDOM, has determined that this child Glorifies HIM more without entering “this world”, and HE brings them into HIS presence without ever having to SUFFER the agonies of living on earth.  Our limited, self-centered mindsets are usually unable to SEE past the hurt and despair of losing a child, but GOD draws Glory to HIMSELF, NOT US!!!

“WHAT IS YOUR LIFE” that you DO NOT have the ability to add to your time on earth?  In Luke 12:25, JESUS says “And which of you by being anxious CAN ADD A SINGLE HOUR to his span of life?”  HE has a PLAN and a PURPOSE for each of us and I must “abdicate” my will for HIS PLAN and HIS PURPOSE!  When we consider “WHAT IS YOUR LIFE”, we must remember that when we were CHOSEN by HIM before the foundation of the world, we “abdicated” our desires for HIS PLAN and PURPOSES!