scripture
James 4:13-17
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." As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil. Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
illustration
We want God to give us a paper that says where we will go to school, what job we will have, when we will get married, where we will live, and how many kids we will have.
After we review this paper we will choose to sign it whereby saying that we approve of these plans. However, God instead gives us a blank paper and says to sign it.
Roger Spradlin
quote
Perhaps it is so hard to know the will of God because we have it already mapped out.
Roger Spradlin
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