Thoughts for another day

 

May 4, 2009.

 

Today's verse: 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. (KJV)

(Pls. read the above before you read further.  Thanks)

 

Many of us humans behave as if we are going to live forever.   Our actions therefore, are commensurate with the way we think and many times crude and high handed, leaving much to be desired.  Many people have on their death beds repented of what they did when alive and confessed that had they the time, they would go to the concerned persons and beg their forgiveness.  Alas, death claimed them swiftly and their noble intentions, remained but, intentions. 

 

My thinking is, we must at all times be aware of this little fact and behave accordingly.  One of the best things we can do is not be presumptuous about our achievements, nor of what we will achieve.  Remember God enabled you to achieve what you have thus far and it’s God who will enable you to achieve what you will achieve.   Putting people in the right place at the right time and giving people the wisdom to speak the right thing at the right time, is totally a gift of God, which many take to be co-incidence or luck.  But as I have held, there is nothing like luck; except that everything is the Divine plan of God unfolding before us day by day.

 

We’re but like our verse tells us today, vapor, visible for a while and then disappearing.  So short is our life on earth, which we count in hours, days, years, that even before an assignment is complete, we are gone.   It’s easy to stand on our pride and arrogance, as I too do, and then think that we’re superior so we can do what we want.  But, there are moments of helplessness I have seen even in the strongest of men so as to be amazing.  The most powerful have within the twinkling of an eye, vanished to be mere mud in the bowels of the ground or as in some customs, ash in an urn. It’s important my friend to consider this and always hold it for then it’s possible our tuning toward God and men would be good.