What are your plans for 2014?
“Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." (James 4: 13-15). I don't think James is teaching that planning is wrong, but that attached to our plans should always be a proviso that God is all-powerful. We may say, "Today or tomorrow we're going to do this or that," but we understand, " only if God allows it." 2014 has arrived, 12 months untested and untried! When I think about this New Year and my life being a "Mist," some translations say "Vapor" it makes me think of those chilly Wyoming winter mornings when I can see my own breath in the air. I see the vapor, but within a second, it