The Devotional - JAS011

The Devotional

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Are you sensitive to your heart or do you ignore it? Do your thoughts and plans include the will of our God and Father or would you rather make decisions based on what today or tomorrow may bring? Have you ever planned to go on vacation, only to find out you could not go, or find that when getting there, it was not what you expected? Many people with the best intention seek to move about doing things they call normal, only to find that what ought to be normal is really mundane or worldly, even vain. Life in the WORLD is not what we expect it to be and it is certainly not what God has in store for those who seek Him with the WHOLE heart.

Challenge: James 4:13-17 and James 4:7-10

There is not a day that goes by that evil is not present. I ask these two questions randomly to most everyone I come in contact with. “How is it going?” or “How are you?” The response is mostly the same answer, “Okay!” and that is the end of it. However, there are a few folks who have other responses. While these are unique to the responder they are not the same as “okay!” These folks are hurting inside. One such response is; “I’m livin the dream!” My response is; “How is it; you seek for me to believe that lie, since you do not believe it yourself!” “Choke, gag, stutter and they do a little mumbling!”

What? What did you say? Is my reply. Their answer; “Well I am waiting for my ship to come in, any day now and I will be living the dream, all I need to do is to wait and my dream will come true.” I only see one small thing standing in the way of the dreams of mankind and that is the failure most of us have, and that is to – WAKE UP! Most of the people I speak to are above fifty years old and when and if the ship comes in, all of us together will be too weak and feeble to unload it, much less to enjoy it!.

So what than shall we do? Since we do not know what the morrow will bring, why is it that we a have a moral to the story that never comes true? What is your life? It is a vapor full dreams with ONE promise. Which is, life is guaranteed to appear for a little time and then it vanishes away. So instead of dreaming life away we ought to be saying with confidence and integrity of mind, “If the LORD wills, we shall do this or that and we shall live.

Boasting in arrogance is nothing but EVIL and is always motivated by SIN. Even though we may deny it, we do know that all such boasting is physically, mentally and spiritually unstable. How do we overcome? “Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the LORD, and He will lift you up – James 4:7-10.