The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 280


The Devotional – Search the Scriptures – 280

Boasting about worldliness

James 4:13-17 – Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Christ/Messiah is The Wisdom and knowledge of God

James is challenging us to evaluate our lives as children of God. Think about what it is we are doing with our lives as God’s children! Many of us give no thought to God throughout the day, every day, except for Sunday. The rest of the week we are busy, busy buying selling, making or losing a profit, boasting or bragging about this or that and failing to acknowledge that God even exists. We do all of this in the sight of God and then to boot on Sunday we run off to our local assembly seeking to prove our fleshly activity to those ten percent whom we know are faithful. We fly from one faithful person to the next like flies, Solomon has something to say about these flies. Ecclesiastes 10:1 – Dead (literally, flies of death) putrefy the perfumers’ ointment and cause it to give off a foul odor.

Come Monday, do we really know what will happen? One day performs just like the next, but will we be a part of that performance? Only God knows! I go to several auto accidents in my community with the local fire department, some of these events are deadly for the persons involved. Ever have a large bug hit your windshield, (one second the bug lives; the next second, the bug is dead) certainly that is the thought you and I have as we turn on the windshield wiper to remove the bug before it hardens. Death, especially on Interstates is very much like that, Men, women, and children joking, quarreling and whatever else distracts.

The bottom line is that we ought not to be distracted by the flesh, life, even without the horror of sudden death is but a vapor. Job states that ‘his life is swifter than a weaver’s shuttle’ (Job 7); what about our lives, are these days of our life any better than that of Job’s? No, so what is more important? To spend your ‘born from above life’ on the temporal things that have no real tomorrow? Or to live your life for the kingdom of God which is eternal.

So how simple it is sin, but for those who know what to do and does not do it—it is SIN and you very well know it.

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