James 4: 13 - 17
13Now 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." 14Why, 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. 15Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. 17Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
Ben's Comments:
-For me this verse came at a very good time.. It is pretty cool how the word of God can comfort and can help me know how to think and how to live.. Sometimes God brings verse into your mind and lets you read something you need to hear. For me that was this verse. Keep on doing the DDI, keep getting into the Bible and God can speak to you through it.
- A lot of times we can plan for the future but we don't even know what tomorrow will bring.
- What we do and how we plan our life matters.
- If we are so busy planning what we are going to do then we can miss what God really wants for us.
- Say you decide that you are going to spend all weekend playing video games - but you have a friend that is going through a hard time and just needs a friend to hang out with.. you could be missing out on an opportunity.
What do you think?
1. Why do we try to plan our lives?
2. Why is it so hard to say, "God I want to do whatever you want me to do?"
3. What do you think verse 17 means?
1: we are to focused on what we do and so we plan out what we do in the future
ReplyDelete2:sometimes, god might say things that people don't want to do like give up all of their belongings
3:basically if you know what's good, then do it,because if you know what's right but you don't do that, you do the wrong thing and sin