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Our Lord’s half brother James writes such practical, down to earth, advice that I often find myself turning to his small epistle when I need counseling. When he offers solutions to our problems, we can know without doubt what he means. He speaks to me in terms that I can understand. I can never turn away with questions in my mind as to just what he meant to say. He also speaks of matters that bother us all, not some unlikely subject..
In this portion of scripture, he speaks of something that probably bothers all of us. We know what we should do, but perhaps it is a task that we do not want to do. We may feel unqualified to do it. Perhaps we are unsure of ourselves and think that we might be getting over our depth.. An attitude of superiority is also bad, and is often a case of false bravado assumed by a person who has an inferiority complex. Think of it this way. If God placed it in your heart to do something , he who knows you even better than you know yourself, would not have placed that call there unless he also knew that you, through him, could do it. If we were choosing a man to lead in the establishment of the church, would we have chosen impetuous, unstable Simon? Not likely! Neither would we have chosen a, possibly stuttering, murderer to lead the Children of Israel out of Egypt. Moses had killed an Egyptian, and he tried to evade God’s clear instructions saying that he had a speech problem. God often chooses us because of our weakness so that the contrast of his power will be even more evident when we succeed. Saul of Tarsus who could clearly have been charged as aiding in the death of Stephen in a court today, yet God chose him to preach the good news of Christ to the entire Gentile (non-Jewish) world.
Now let’s read James 4:13-16.
13. Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
14. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
15. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16. But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
These days the young graduate from high school is expected to know what he should do with his life. In fact, I recall being told that, even as a grammar school student, I should be choosing my vocation in life, yet many university students, for one reason or another completely change their majors sometimes several times before they graduate. I personally changed my major, then after two years in the military changed it again and went on to achieve two degrees at a Bible College. I am confident that God had started to prepare me for his use, long before that time, the military training made a great difference. For one thing, it made me realize that I am here for a reason, and that this life is only the time of preparation for eternity.
This final verse contains a statement that makes all the difference in the world.
17. Therefore to him that knows to do good, and does it not, to him it is sin.
That is a verse, James 4:17, that I personally, need to type in bold capital letters and place at the top of my computer monitor’s screen. What about you?
If we know that something is good and needs to be done, let’s get a move on and do it. Don’t leave it for tomorrow. We don’t even know if there will be a tomorrow! God may have sent us to do tat one thing for him.
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I PLEDGE TO READ MY BIBLE THROUGH IN 2008
OCTOBER
12th. Sunday - Jeremiah 27,28,29, I Thessalonians 2, Psalm 119:17-24
13th. Monday - Jeremiah 30,31, I Thessalonians 3, Psalm 119:25-32
14th. Tuesday - Jeremiah 32,33, I Thessalonians 4, Psalm 119:33-40
15h. Wednesday - Jeremiah 34,35,36, 1Thessalonians 5, Proverbs 25:1-10
16th. Thursday - Jeremiah 37,38,39, 2Thessalonians 1, Psalm 119:41-48
17th. Friday - Jeremiah 40,41,42, 2Thessalonians 2, Psalm 119:49-56
18th. Saturday - Jeremiah 43,44, 2 Thessalonians 3, Psalm 119:57-64
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Matthew 28:18-20
18. And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth,
19. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
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