James 4:13-17

 ¹³ Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.” ¹⁴ Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.¹⁷ If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
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     Let me start off by giving you a timeline of how my life SHOULD be looking right now:

18 years old: Go to College 

18-22 years old: Date a girl, fall in love 

22 years old: Graduate 

23-24 years old: Propose and get married 

25-26 years old: Have a baby 

28-29 years old: Have more babies

30 years old: Full time job 

       But as of right now in my life I live in Chicago, at home, am not going to school, am single, getting by day by day can be a struggle and my timeline is years behind. In todays society we all have the ideal life planned out in our heads. Where we want to be on our life timeline and when we should be there. From early ages our lives are already being planned by our parents. We go to college prep schools, we participate in extra circular activities all to help warp and effect our future. In James 4:13-17 we see that we are spending to much time planning out our own futures and not putting enough trust in where God is leading us. 

   We are told that we are like a mist that appears and leaves just as quickly as it came. Our lives are to short to be stressing out over every little detail in them! Do you realize how much simpler life would be if we put our total trust in the Lord and in his plan?  God tells us countless times that He is always watching out for us and is trying to lead us on His path, but often time we are to busy trying to be in control of our lives. We love to be in control of the wheel and have a hard time letting God take our lives and make of it what we will. 

    We often time think we are in charge of our own lives, and God tells us that this is sinful thinking. When we think we are in charge of our lives we begin to take God out of the equation. None of us know the future we've though we think we might. God ultimately knows the outcome of any action and will protect us from all evils. We need to be willing to put our lives totally in Gods hands, which is easier said then done. 

     I struggle all the time with where am I supposed to be in my life. When I think I know where God wants me to be my mind begins to wander and I fall of the path once again. I need to begin to trust the Lord more, I have gotten better at following my callings but when they become to extreme I panic and back out. I challenge not only myself but also you to spending the next week listening to where the Lord is leading you...and then do it. Life is not about us, it's about God and bring His glory to His people. So lets do it! 

I pray for you and your walk with Christ.