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      • For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.” 16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
  1. Aug 26, 2024 · Answer. James 4:14 states, “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.”. When James asks, “What is your life?” he’s asking a rhetorical question.

  2. James is telling us to accept our mortality, accept our lack of control, accept our shortness of life, and accept our frailty. Life is short. We are not going to live forever on this planet.

  3. Boasting About Tomorrow. 13 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.” 14 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.

  4. Aug 26, 2024 · James offers clear direction about how we should live our lives when we don’t know what tomorrow may bring. We ought to live humbly and in the recognition that God is in control, not us. There is no room for arrogance in our planning. James reminds that boasting about our plans is evil (James 4:16).

  5. Aug 26, 2024 · Answer. James 4:14 says, “Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.” A vapor is a fine mist like fog. It quickly burns away when the sun comes up. It has no substance and leaves nothing behind.

  6. In this text, James challenges these Jewish Christian businessmen about how they were planning for the future. In James 4:13, he says, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.’”.

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  8. Apr 9, 2000 · In verse 14, James says to those who are planning this business venture: "Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away."

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