Presuming on the Future, Part 1 (TMF:2136)

Monday, July 17, 2023
Peace to Live By: Presuming on the Future, Part 1 (TMF:2136) - Daniel Litton
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       Go ahead and tap or turn in your Bibles to James chapter 4. We are starting in verse 13: “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. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. (James 4:13-17, ESV). In coming to this text today, what is the overall, arching problem? The person who thinks that he or she’s life will go a certain way, and carry on in a specific linear direction, what are they doing? Well, they are presuming on the future. They are assuming that, as Doc Brown taught us in the Back to the Future trilogy, namely the third part, that the course of today will continue into tomorrow. The problem is that, we really don’t know what’s going to happen at any moment after this one, no matter what we really think.