James 4:13-14

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BIBLE TEXT: James 4:13-14 “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.”

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Swindoll On ... Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 6, 2010 (message contributor) (rate this sermon illustration)| 2,538 views Scripture:  James 4:13-17 Tags:  Time

Swindoll on Time Swindoll stated this in His book Living on the Ragged Edge and its focus is about the importance of our time:

Every morning someone who loves you very much deposits into your bank of time 86,400 seconds of time-which represents 1,440 minutes-which, of course, equal twenty-four hours each day.

Now you’ve got to remember the same stipulation applies, because God gives you this amount of time for you to use each day. Nothing is carried over on credit to the next day. There is no such thing as a twenty-six-hour day (though some of us wish there were). From today’s dawn until tomorrow’s dawn, you have a precisely determined amount of time. As someone has put it, “Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway you want to, but you can spend it only once.”

One of the most fascinating (and, I might add, frustrating) of all subjects is this four-letter word TIME. It’s amazing. We all have the same amount of time. Whether we are penniless or whether we happen to be the richest person on earth, whether we are young or old, single or married, employed or without a job, an adolescent in school or the President of the United States of America-we have exactly the same amount of time

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Bible Text : James 4:13-14 “Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.”

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James Maintains his passion.

13 Planning is not evil—in fact, businesspeople are wise to plan ahead. The problem that James addresses, however, is that God is not included in those plans. The

v. 14 There is a problem with these well-made plans—no one can know what will happen tomorrow, to say nothing of a year in the future

Life is short no matter how long we live. We shouldn’t be deceived into thinking we have plenty of time left to live for Christ, to enjoy our loved ones, or to do what we know we should.

Today is the day to live for God! Then, no matter when our lives end, we will have fulfilled God’s plans for us.

Cross Reference: Proverbs 27:1 “Do not boast about tomorrow, For you do not know what a day may bring forth.”

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