
Be humble in your planning and obedient in your living as Intentional acts of faith.
James 4:16-17
Part of Intentional Acts of Faith—The book of James
October 25, 2021
James 4:13-17
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 paragraph goes from verse 13 all the way to verse 17.
- Verses 13-15 will tell us how
our future planning tends to be. - Verse 16 will tell us how
our future planning tends to be. - Verse 17 will tell us what our future planning usually leaves
.
God wants us to be
as we plan our lives (v. 16).
Be humble instead of assuming that success is
(v. 16a-b).
Be humble by admitting that success does not rest entirely your own
(v. 17).
Be humble because arrogant planning is
(v. 16c).
God wants us to be
as we live our lives (v. 17).
To be obedient, we must know what God’s
are (v. 17a).
Then we must make
in our plans to obey God’s commands (v. 17b-c).