Boasting About Tomorrow
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 in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil. 17 If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
This passage is short and to the point! You don't know what tomorrow will bring! We are not in control!!!! This passage really doesn't get to you until you lose someone your age. I think when we are kids we feel invincible, when we are teens we feel entitled to a long life, when we are adults we are expectant, and when we are senior adults (well I am not sure how they feel yet).
This scripture became very real to me when I was in college. One of the other nursing students, who was in most of my groups, died in a car wreck over the Christmas holiday our senior year. It crushed me. What really affected me was that I had never asked him if he was a Christian. A simpe question and thousands of oppurtunities and I never asked!!!! I never even considered that he or any of my other classmates would die. We were all looking forward to graduating and getting jobs...getting married (I already was)...having children! I never once thought...I could die.
I have now learned to pray for God's will to be done in every situation of my life. It's not easy to give it all to Him. When I do give it all to Him, things may not go the way I envisioned, but they end up a whole lot better!
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