Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. (James 4:13–14 ESV)
Do you feel like James just said that to us today after what we have experienced over the last 45 days? James just said to pay attention those of us (which is all of us) who assumed that life and schedules would be what we planned. We thought that tomorrow would be like today. We assumed that all our plans that we made would certainly come to pass. It is interesting that it takes something like this pandemic to really think about what James was trying to tell. We could read a passage like this and think that we understand that we do not know what tomorrow holds. But we thought that possibility was really low. We thought that life tomorrow would continue as we know it today…
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