WHAT IS YOUR LIFE?: TURNING TO GOD
(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. Turning To God
a) God says to such people, "Repent and turn that your sins may be blotted out so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord" (Acts 3:19).
b) Those who answer God’s call will perhaps still have a hard life, but in their troubles they will have heavenly help.
c) Better still, their life will have meaning because they "suffer as a Christian" and "share in Christ’s sufferings" (1 Peter 4:12-16).
d) All kinds of suffering may be regarded as a form of persecution, as Paul said, "a messenger of Satan to torment me" (2 Corinthians 12:7). With Jesus involved, the battle becomes worthwhile, winnable, and even wonderful.
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. Turning To God
a) God says to such people, "Repent and turn that your sins may be blotted out so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord" (Acts 3:19).
b) Those who answer God’s call will perhaps still have a hard life, but in their troubles they will have heavenly help.
c) Better still, their life will have meaning because they "suffer as a Christian" and "share in Christ’s sufferings" (1 Peter 4:12-16).
d) All kinds of suffering may be regarded as a form of persecution, as Paul said, "a messenger of Satan to torment me" (2 Corinthians 12:7). With Jesus involved, the battle becomes worthwhile, winnable, and even wonderful.
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