If the Lord wills...

"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”; 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. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin"

James 4 : 13-17 (New King James Version)

Im sure all of us remember studying about Vapor as kids in our science classes :) Wow...our life is as vapor ! Ever thought about that ? This life that we give so much importance to , this life that we sometimes grumble or get so tensed up struggling to plan it out right .... its just as vapor.....

But yet the Lord decided to come to this earth and pay the price for our sins on the cross...So that this life which we sometimes so arrogantly claim to be ours may be used for His glory . We are not our own...But we are His... We have been ransomed by the blood of Jesus Christ.

I remember chatting with a friend of mine and his complaint was that his dad didnt like it when he wore jeans....And the reason why he was so affected by this ? He was old enough to make his decisions ... How many of us allow tiny things like this affect us ? I know I do so many times...We say "This is my life ...I know what to do !" .... We forget ....This life is not ours...
Every time that I go home to visit my parents they are after me to have my hair tied up and combed nice and flat !! :) Well not that I do that when I am inside the house with them, but when we do go out together I try and make them happy...It may be the tinest thing...But it does make a difference to them :)

None of us can predict whats gonna happen in the next second... How many of us have so arrogantly boasted of what we perceive tomorrow to be like ?

Everything is to be submitted to the will of God. The Bible says that we ought to say "If the Lord wills" .... We need to submit everything at His feet as per His Holy will ...

Why this level of submission ? Well because God has given us authority ! We read in Proverbs 18:20-21 "A man’s stomach shall be satisfied from the fruit of his mouth;From the produce of his lips he shall be filled.Death and life are in the power of the tongue, And those who love it will eat its fruit. " Amazing isnt it ? From the produce of our lips we will be satisfied and filled ....Death and Life are in the power of the tongue.

When we pray we speak out knowing that when we pray things happen ! Correct ? So that means when we speak, we speak with the authority of being Sons and Daughters of the Most High !

Exactly why its important that we submit everything to the plan of God....Few reasons...

Lets not be arrogant or boastful that our life is in our hands
When we speak out there is power in it. Now Im sure none of us would want something which is not God's will to happen to us ! We may speak of many plans, but by subjecting them to God's will we are confessing that not our will be done but His alone
And yes last but not the least , the Bible says all such boasting is evil.

God Bless