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Friday, October 5, 2012

Day #57



Good morning God!  Thank you for this day!  Please help me to love those you have placed around me.  Please help me to love them with my words, sound in my voice, and my body language.  But, most of all, please help me to share my love for you with them.  I want to be a light for You.

Please read James 4:13-17.

Two days ago we started learning about this passage and the arguments that James presents for not living a Christ-centered life… a life where Christ is center-stage and you are the stage-hand. 

There were four arguments.
1.    The complexity of life (v. 13)
2.    The uncertainty of life (v. 14a)
3.    The brevity of life (v. 14b)
4.    The frailty of man (v. 16)

I encourage you to look at the last lesson to get an understanding of the first argument.  Today we will move into the 2nd one.

Please read James 4:14 once more.  Write it down in your journal because we really need to understand this.

According to verse 14, what do these men NOT know?  The wording here suggests that the business men have a lot of self-confidence.  They clearly have the idea that they control the events in their lives.  They are failing to see God’s sovereignty over all things.

Sovereignty (definition) – supreme power and authority.

God control’s ALL things… ALL THINGS!  Planning and dreams are not wrong, but arrogant self-confidence and boasting are.  We cannot even see ahead into one day.  It is God who orchestrates it all.  

Please read Proverbs 27:1. 
What does this verse tell us?

There is an amazing story in the Bible about a farmer who had an arrogant self-confidence and a boastful attitude.  Take a look at the story… (click Luke 12:16-21).  Write the answers in your journal.

What did the farmer have?
What actions did he take?
What was taken?

Life is not uncertain to God, but it is uncertain to us.  When we have Christ as our Savior and our Lord, it is then and only then, that we will be where we should be.  In this way we can be confident about tomorrow and whatever it brings, because we know He is leading.

TARGET of the DAY
Do you know what it is to have Christ as Savior?  If not please, please read the tab on the side, “What is salvation?”  Do you know what it is to have Christ as Lord?  This is where you live your life with Him at the center of it.  You do this by focusing on getting to know Him through daily Bible study and prayer.  Prayer is simply talking to Him, but most importantly listening.  Only through spending time with Him daily, will you then become obedient… a doer of the very WORD you are learning. 
Many of us have Christ as Savior… but it is He Lord? 
Ask Him today to reveal any impurities in your heart. 
Love Him by humbling yourself and following Him as Lord.
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