What is your life?

James 4:13-17, Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

We have great material abundance that can give us the idea of being independent and can make us forget that God is the source of our blessings. Do we take time to thank Him for all that we have? For a good night’s sleep, for our daily bread? Are we seeking His will in every situation, to let His blessings flow through us?

Thank You for all that You have done for us; give us this day our daily bread as we seek to know Your will and to walk with You today!

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