Wearing Out the Day

‘Taint worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
– Sarah Orne Jewett

Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:  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.  For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
– James (James 4:13-15)

 

About Jon Gleason

Former Pastor of Free Baptist Church of Glenrothes
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2 Responses to Wearing Out the Day

  1. alcoramdeo says:

    Lovely, Brother Jon.
    Doubtless James writing in the Holy Spirit, built upon these words of our Lord:

    Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
    Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
    Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
    And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
    And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
    Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
    Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
    (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
    But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
    Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
    (Matthew 6:25-34)

    • Jon Gleason says:

      Well, Brother Al, you solved my dilemma for me. I sat there, after typing that quote in, and said to myself, “Matthew 6 or James 4?” I pasted in Matthew, then took it out and pasted in James, then back to Matthew, but finally settled on James. 🙂

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