What's your plan?
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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.
What does our passage say about God?
First thing I see is that He is sovereign. Look at verses 13-15
We should filter everything through this lens. God does not ordain evil but He allows it.
This is why it is so important that we know this Book. We must know His character so we can trust Him. He has always proven faithful. In the darkest night, He has proven faithful. I think back to Elijah, and when he was ready to quite and Elijah felt alone.
He said, “I have been very jealous for the Lord, the God of hosts. For the people of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword, and I, even I only, am left, and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Yet I will leave seven thousand in Israel, all the knees that have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth that has not kissed him.”
I have to admit, I tend to get dicouraged. There are times I look at this world and feel like the miss is to big. The world is to far gone. What can I do? We need to remember that God is sovergiegn, He is working in teh hearts of people. We can’t do that. Only He can change hearst and people. We need to pray and seek the power of the Holy Spirit, Amen?
What else dhoes our our text say about God? Look at veres 14
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.
Our passage and comparing ang contrasting us verse God, so if our lives are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
What does our text say about us, about men and women?
First, we often live our lives in complete ignorance that God is in conrtol not us. We make plans for our lives without even considering that God is in control. That it is His will and not ours.
And he told them a parable, saying, “The land of a rich man produced plentifully,
and he thought to himself, ‘What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?’
And he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.
And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.” ’
But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’
So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
The second thing this passage reveals about us is in verse 16.
As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
adjective: arrogant
having or revealing an exaggerated sense of one's own importance or abilities.
The third and final thing our text reveals about us is in verse 17
So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.
Often times we get very focused on the sin in our life that we shouldn’t be doing and totally ignore the good things that we should.
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,
casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.