Last Sunday, our executive pastor Tim Maughan (Redemption Church, Gilbert), taught on James, finishing chapter 4, verses 13 - 17.
If you haven't had the opportunity to see (or hear) Tim preach, now's your chance!
James #10 - Boasting About Tomorrow from Redemption Church on Vimeo.
Tim's message focuses on how even Christians can become "practical atheists." Meaning, they profess to believe in God and trust in Him and call themselves followers of Christ, yet they can still, at times, be guilty of living their lives, making their plans, thinking about the things they want to do and how they want to do them, and how it'll all turn out -- without giving a second thought to what GOD might have to say about it, or even that the outcome depends on HIM!
James warns us not to "boast" about what we'd like to do, whether now or in the future ("we'll go into such and such a city to buy and sell and get gain") because the reality is, we really don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, next year or even in the next five minutes, because none of that is within our ability to control, it's in God's.
Tim cites some personal examples from his own life (including a serious car accident that nearly left him dead), that convinced him in a powerful way that all of us, no matter how godly or spiritual we think we are, sometimes take life for granted and presume that things will turn out exactly the way we think (and hope and plan) that they will -- because it's what we want -- and we forget just how fragile, temporary and transitory (like a "vapor") life is. We forget that GOD is the absolute, sovereign authority in and over our lives, and it's Him who governs and directs everything that happens to us (and through us), as well as how it all happens, and why it all happens -- for our benefit and for His glory.
Watch this video, from beginning to end (it's that good!), and you'll learn some amazing truths from God's Word about His infinite wisdom, mercy and goodness towards us who are His children (through faith in His Son).
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