“If The Lord Wishes”
Come now, you who say, “Today or
tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing
business and making money.” Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring.
What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a
little while and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord
wishes, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your
arrogance, all such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the right thing
to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
Today, many of us are skilled at
sounding religious, but we do not put our words into action. This is hypocrisy.
When there is a difference between what we say and what we do, we create
confusion in the minds of those listening to us. That is why many nonbelievers
do not take the gospel message seriously.
Our role today
is to speak the truth and do the truth,
there is no
in-between.
When words and
actions agree,
the message is
loud and clear.
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