"If
The Lord Wishes"
Come now, you who say, "Today or
tomorrow we will go to such and such a town a 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 things to do and fails to do it, commits sin.
James 4:13-17
We all have ways of opening our days each
morning. Some do exercise. Some take a shower, and yet others pray and give
thanks for another day of life.
As Christians, we are defined by the
enabling grace of the Holy Spirit in each of us. Because of that we can surely
dedicate each new day to our Lord. No matter where we are or what our situation
may be, each day we can resolve to dedicate the hours
before us to God's praise.
If you are facing loneliness or pain as
once again you pick up your burden, you can draw on the Lord's resources and be
a living testimony of His all-sufficiency. If you are filled with thanksgiving
and praise, you can tell others of God's goodness. We do not know what each day
will bring. That is all the more reason, then, to dedicate each day to
rejoicing in the Lord.
If you know
Jesus, you always have a reason to rejoice.
Our
Daily Bread -