Hello Everyone,
James 4:13-17
13Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." 14Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. 17Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.

In the grand scheme of history, human life is short.

Verse 14 reminds us that all of our plans and schemes amount to little more than mist or vapor when held up against the backdrop of eternity.

A doctor called one of his patients into his office to deliver some very important news. "I have received the results of your tests and I have some bad news and some good news", said the doctor. The patient was quiet for a moment, sensing the severity of the announcement. "Let me have the good news first, doc", said the patient. The doctor took a deep breath and said, "You only have 24 hours to live." "Oh my goodness", shouted the patient, "If that’s the good news what could the bad news possibly be?" The doctor replied, "I was supposed to tell you yesterday."

What if you were told that you had only one minute to live?
Most of us live as if there is no tomorrow. We simply have no concept of a world without us and yet each second the clock ticks away is one less second off our lives and as David said, “for they quickly pass, and we fly away”.

We have a gift from God and that gift is life itself. Every minute of every day, every heart beat, and every breath is a gift.

This week we will be discussing how short life is compared to eternity and also how God has made everything available for us to have a full and productive life.
Oh How HE Loves Us!
Pastor Phil