Live is a vapor

James 4:14

Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

The text lets us know that WE HAVE NO FORESIGHT: "Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow."

The text divided into an emphatic question, "What is your life?" and an instructive answer: "It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."

Life is a mystery, of how God deals with man, life is uncertain.

How many people question themselves, wanting to know what’s my purpose in life, compared to everything else you have to do in life…

You do not know if you have twenty years to do it, or ten, or a few more months, or days.

"Jesus may come to-day or to-morrow, or twenty years, but whenever He come we have to ready.

Some only have childhood, other get to grow into their youth, another is allowed to grow into an old ripe age, some fall asleep instead of dying.

Some people have long warnings before they die; a man may have a sickness that’s go with him until his death and he knows he’s going to die, and so he get himself ready; while another is cut off suddenly, some are healthy and drops down; other have warnings by sickness, another one has a sudden accident and is gone.

This throws the light on the difficulties of which life brings.

If you don’t remember but one thing, remember this, our lives here are just a vapor.

We are told to do one thing, and that is to remember God in thy youth.

Eccl 12 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth

When you think about your futures you say things like it a sure thing to happen; you talk about doing thing tomorrow as if you know what tomorrow is going to bring; but if God calls you away now, what is the future, what will tomorrow be for you?

It will be sad, but it will be judgement.

There will be a tomorrow for someone, but will there be a tomorrow for you?

You cannot count on tomorrow, you do not know what tomorrow brings.

The present becomes your concern now!

The present is yours; the past is gone and cannot be changed, the future is not sure, but the present is yours to make the right dissensions.

The present is powerful enough to convince your now, that your future will be better than your now!

The mystery of God of how He deals with us making our lives uncertain.

God give different time to different people; this is just how God works.

"What is life?"

Life to us is important, but eternity is much more important than LIFE.

If your troubled because of the question.

“Life is a vapor!”

Life is what God has given man to enjoy

God blow breath into man, and man became a living soul.

Since God has given us live, we should honor God for our life He gave us.

Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth,

"A vapour" translucent nothing! Breath is vapor. The is a virus in the air that is translucent.

Yesterday we exist; we exists now; but tomorrow we are gone, in a moment time gone.

Man's life; one cold, one fever, one mistake in medicine, then we are in eternity. Heaven or Hell.

But we live our lives, neglecting the souls, as if we are going to live forever.

Life is a vapor" a mist translucent.

Here is some substance, reality, and truth.

"To be spiritually minded is life and peace."

“But to be carnal minded is death”

This life is to be led by the Spirit, to be quickened by the Spirit, to be drawn by the Spirit, to be guided by the Spirit, and to follow His word.

"Ye are not your own, for ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God with your bodies and your spirits, which are God's."

To "glorify God" is the highest element in man's being. Whether a man is in the lowest poverty, or whether he is called to sit upon the most exalted throne, it does not matters.

If we lives under the principles of God, this is true life.

Look at the source of life: nothing less than the Spirit of God.

We have here an emphatic question: that the writer asks, "What is your life?"

Life is not just composed of dreams?

Your own breath is a picture of the flimsy, airy thing which men call life.

Life is a vapor?

Some things last along time, something run down through centuries; but life is a vapor?

Clothes tear and wear out; car’s break down, teeth and hair fall out, what is life, but a vapor?

There are a thousand gates to death; some seem to be narrow, but many souls have passed through.

Men have been choked by a grape and died, man has been killed by a shingle falling from a roof of a house, poisoned by a drop of poison, off by a whiff of foul air.

It is a wounder, that man lives at all, with all the germs in the air...

So unstable is our life says the apostle,

What is it?

So frail, so fragile, that he does not call it a flower of the field, or the snuff of a candle, but asks, What is our life?

Is it anything?

Is it not a near approach to nothing?

St. Augustine used to say he did not know whether to call it a dying life or a living death, and I leave you the choice between the two.

This is certainly a dying time; its marked by graves.

Nothing but a continuous miracle keeps any one of us from the grave.

Earth will return to earth, earth to earth and ashes to ashes.

It is a dying life: and equally true is it that it is a living death.

We are always dying.

Every beating we breath and every heart beat is one less moment of time: the more years we count in our life, the fewer days remain before we behold the light.

From childhood to youth, from youth to manhood, from manhood to old age, we continue to march forward in rank.

We tarry not even when we sleep: we are continually moving forward like the waters of a river, on the banks we find a habitation.

What, then, is our life? The question remains unanswered and unanswerable.

Jesus said I come that you might have life, and that more abundantly!

But you must answer the call, and repent.

They was a revival and the preacher was every night letting the members know that Jesus was soon to return.

And one of the men named George had a friend named Jim, George and Jim went to the services that night, George, was just a young convert, and he didn’t know how to witness real good at this time, but he had a burden for Jim, so he ask Jim, “do you what to give your life to Christ tonight.” Jim said, “I can’t do it tonight, George.

Let me off tonight. I promise you, If I feel this way tomorrow I’ll do it, but please let me off tonight, George.”

George said he went to school the next day and Jim wasn’t there.

George didn’t think a whole lot about it, he went to school the next day and Jim wasn’t there again, so he went to Jim’s house, and when he got there Jim’s mother said to him, “Haven’t you heard?”Jim became, seriously sick with fever and pneumonia, George ask his mother to let him stay for awhile.And late that night, in an acute confusional state.

Jim began to speak in his acute confusional state, “Not tonight, George. Let me off. If I feel this way tomorrow night I’ll do it tomorrow night, but let me off tonight.”

And that’s the way he went out to meet God.

You don’t know what you’ll be on the morrow, your life is a vapor, it appears for a little while and is gone.

What have you been putting off in your life?

Have you been putting off serving the Lord?

Make up your mind to do it today!

Don’t put of for tomorrow for what you can do today!

Get to Him today, for tomorrow may be to late!