WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?: ACKNOWLEDGE GOD'S HAND
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. What Is Your Life?
a) James asks, “What is your life?” (James 4:14). There's not a lot of realism about life. The nature of life on this earth is fairly evident, yet people live life as though it were far different to the reality.
James 4:13-17
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
2. Acknowledge God’s Hand
a) "Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life" (Psalm 54:4). That is no myth. That is the truth.
b) This doesn't mean you can't have aspirations for this life. But if your aspirations are frustrated and life disappoints you, look beyond the mist to the life that never disappoints and is eternal.
c) The problem is not having goals and aspirations. It's fine to go about your business. But don't proudly think that you are in control. Humbly acknowledge God’s hand.
The End ...
1. What Is Your Life?a) James asks, “What is your life?” (James 4:14). There's not a lot of realism about life. The nature of life on this earth is fairly evident, yet people live life as though it were far different to the reality.
James 4:13-17
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
2. Acknowledge God’s Hand
a) "Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life" (Psalm 54:4). That is no myth. That is the truth.
b) This doesn't mean you can't have aspirations for this life. But if your aspirations are frustrated and life disappoints you, look beyond the mist to the life that never disappoints and is eternal.
c) The problem is not having goals and aspirations. It's fine to go about your business. But don't proudly think that you are in control. Humbly acknowledge God’s hand.
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