Thoughts for another day

Aug. 15, 2013.

Today's verse: Jas. 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)

Our Scripture becomes relevant each time I behave arrogant and believe the others are meant to serve me.  I take on an attitude of loftiness and usually others find no substance in what I hold as my base for this loftiness and even I know I’m empty but then my bull headedness takes over and I care a damn and retain my pride.  It becomes relevant and needed when I get into a scrap with someone, for a small wrong that person did to me.  I’m enraged and become even angrier if the person as much as tries to argue and defend himself.  I seethe inside, pour curses on him and say I’ll destroy him and whatever belongs to him and even more.  My voice is raised to a shrill; I’m shouting; my pressure shoots up, yet I’m screaming, refusing to listen to those around, trying to reason with me.

It becomes relevant in many other situations, but most relevant when God calls me repeatedly to Himself.  He says He yearns for me and I must go even as I live so that I may live a rich, full life, but again and again I refuse till I’m near death’s door having traversed the path of life, intoxicated by the lures of the world and their shallow pleasures.  And it may become even more relevant when I’m at my last breath and not having known Him, the One I need to go to, I shudder to know what’s beyond my last breath. 

Yes, my friend, we’re all so fragile.  What’s our life as our Scripture today asks: Just a vapor, a mist in the air and disappearing soon after.  Yet, look at the amazing boldness we display in harming others and doing bad in the world without realizing that any time, we may have to go, a time which no one knows about…a time that comes unannounced and of course unwelcome.  But its reality is absolute and must be faced.  So wake up if you’re slumbering in comfort and reach the feet of the Lord, now; tomorrow may be too late.