but a vapor

Too easily do I find myself thinking as if I were in complete control of my life. Too easily do I find myself seeing others do the same as well. It is as if we think we operate what we want to happen and are in total security, as if we were invincible.

I’ve got my plans for tomorrow, this coming week, and even looking toward the coming months and years. I’m sure you do as well. Sometimes, I’ve even held back from taking the necessary steps I’ve felt the Lord calling me to take to rather wait for a time that better suited my needs. However, that sense of control, it is merely an illusion that we prideful and selfish people easily take rest in.

This is not at all to say that one should not plan for the future — rather, hold our plans lightly, and being able to release them when He changes our situations and circumstances. All the while, seeking to live in his will, not my will, but His be done, moment-by-moment.

James 4:13-14

Come now, you who say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit– yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.