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.

People make

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and talk openly about them.

There are many illustrations of this in daily life.

Here in James 4, God’s word talks openly about how we make plans.

• This paragraph goes from verse 13 all the way to verse 17.
• Verses 13-15 will tell us how
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  our future planning tends to be.
• Verse 16 will tell us how
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  our future planning tends to be.
• Verse 17 will tell us what our future planning usually leaves
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  .
  

But people don’t plan with

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in mind.

We plan as if we

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what God

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(v. 13).

But, unlike God, we have

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(v. 14).

Big Idea:

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your plans to God’s will as an Intentional Act of Faith.

Talk submissively about your plans.

Think submissively as you make your plans.