Key Verses: James 1:13-17 “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. The older I get, the more I am confronted with the brevity of life. I know that I am still young, but young people die every die, and even if I live to be 90 years old I know that it will pass like a blink of an eye. See, the problem with so many Christians is that we believe that we have more time. We believe that we have more time to get serious about learning and obeying God’s Word. We tend to think we have more time to share the gospel, we believe that we have more time to start serving the church, we believe that we have more time to do what God is calling us to do. However, the reality is that life is short, and we don’t always live as long as we think we will. It appears that the Christians James was writing to had fallen into this same way of thinking, and James reminds them life is short, and because of its brevity, we should do what God is calling us to do now. The good God is commanding us to do, such as sharing the gospel, raising Godly children, attending church, serving in church, giving to missions, going to be a missionary, or whatever else God may be calling us to do, if we don’t do it, James says we are sinning. Friends, life is too short to procrastinate in doing God’s work. If God has convicted your heart concerning doing something for Him, He probably doesn’t want you to wait until your retired, or for you to wait until you have more money, or until your kids grow up. He probably wants you to do it now! So start preparing now for God wants you to do, start taking the steps to fulfill his calling on your today! Life is short!
