Someone once said, "Write your plans in pencil, but give God the eraser." This is so true, as only the good Lord knows what the future holds; and also because life is so precarious and risky and uncertain. We do not even know what the next day may hold, or even the very next hour. We could make all kinds of grandiose plans for the next day, only to find ourselves in a terrible accident and then handicapped; or we could die before our next breath. Yet man is notorious for making plans and ignoring God in the process. I realize we have to have goals in life and to prepare for the future as much as possible, but we need to plan with the knowledge that everything we work for could be taken away at any moment. We need to put our trust in God and seek His will. First !
God is in charge !
God is in charge !
This all reminds me of James 4:14 , but I will also quote here verses 13 through 16:
"(13) Go to now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: (14) Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (15) For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. (16) But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil."
Verse 14 above tells us that life is like a vapor..... a mist, always fleeting, and then fades away. Vanishes. No one can depend on or calculate on the "permanence" of a vapor. Something as evanescent as a vapor cannot be depended upon and cannot last. We all have seen a morning mist or ground fog and watched it disappear as the sun rose in the sky. The vapor or mist simply vanishes with no trace remaining; no outline or anything that will remind us that it ever existed.
"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." - Psalm 103:15-16
"For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:" - 1 Peter 1:24
This post is meant to uplift you, but the Scriptures quoted here tell us how frail and transitory life really is. Which points us to the fact that we need to have a hope beyond what this life on earth holds. A glorious hope for eternal life with the Lord in heaven !! So many people live life on earth as if this is all there is; as if there is no hereafter once you die. "Eat, drink, and be merry; for tomorrow we die" type of mentality. True believers know better. This life on earth is a test. A schoolhouse to prepare us for our future with God and Jesus. It took me a long time to realize that truth; the Bible taught me that, but for many years I did not study God's Word. I seldom if ever prayed. I thank the good Lord that He opened my spiritual eyes and my heart to truly embrace the Gospel and Jesus Christ and to have a close relationship with Him.
In these perilous times in which we live - these last of the last days - we need to hang on to the hope and promises of God and Jesus. If we don't, we will be depressed and feel like there is no hope. But true believers know that with God all things are possible (Matthew 19:26). Give your heart and mind and soul to Jesus Christ in faith. Repent of your sins and confess them to God and ask Jesus to come into your heart. Time is short before the Rapture to heaven of true believers.
"And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." - Philippians 4:7
"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." - Jesus speaking at John 14:27
