Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Just a mist

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. (James 4:14 ESV)

I was thinking tonight, while driving home from a long day at the office, how cause and effect, action and reaction, take so much control of our lives.  We spend so much of our lives reacting to someone or something, how does that translate into us relying on God?  How do we react to His cause and effect, or what is our reactions to His actions?  The corporate world part of me has plans, charts, calendars, budgets, people, tools, assets, and a million and one other ways to manipulate this or that to achieve a desired result.  This world view is incompatible with God's way.  We have no promise of tomorrow, none, not even that it will be there.  Our lives are like vapor, here for a moment and then gone.  So comes that question, "what is life?"  Life is our opportunity to point the rest of mankind towards God, to worship Him, to trust in Him completely, and to KNOW that He is coming back again, just as He has risen and conquered sin and death.  We are here for so little time, don't be consumed by earthly stumbling blocks, rather focus on His eternal glory in which we have been invited to partake.

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