James 4:13-17 is a warning about being urgent about the right things in life.  The passage condemns those whose focus on making money at the expense of more important things.  It’s the Lord’s will that is primary.  We need to learn to live in His will.  This means making our plans with Him, committing our plans to Him and when He still says no to us, then we need to be ready to change.  The problem is not that we plan for tomorrow, it’s that we plan with out God and with an exaggerated sense of our own importance.  Being urgent about the wrong thing also makes us loose our focus.  We live in such a way that we put off the things we ought to do today and tell ourselves that we will get to that tomorrow.  That’s sin according to James.  Let’s not go there.  Do today what you know God wants you to do and then do the other things.

Sunday’s sermon  

Sunday’s Bulletin  4-14-13