6TH SEPTEMBER
James 4:13-17
“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’— 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 vanishes. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’ As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”
Life is short. Do what’s right!
Your life may be shorter than you think. Even if you are a careful driver, the person who runs the red light and hits your car may not be. Or something could go wrong with your health. There are no guarantees. And even if you live to be old, you will feel that your life has flown by so fast!
Don’t waste your life on insignificant things when there is so little life to be lived. Focus your time and energy and creativity on things that matter. When you “know the right thing to do,” do it! What if you never get another chance to share the gospel with that neighbour who you get along with so well? What if that young lady at the petrol station you were too scared to talk to never makes it home to her family?
If you live for things that don’t really matter, you are wasting what can never be retrieved. Make your life count.
MAKE IT PERSONAL
What is something that you can do this week that will count for eternity?