The General Epistle of James the Apostle Chapter 4:14
14 And yet ye cannot tell what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and afterward vanisheth away.
Related Scriptures:
Job 7:7
Psalm 37:2, 35-36
1 Peter 1:24
Editor’s thoughts:
Our time here is decided by our Creator, let us do good works to those in need. Help all those that seek aid from you to the best of your abilities. Be charitable and merciful. Exalt those that are due all honor. Likewise, give grace and pardon to all that wrong you. We do not know what the next day, nay even the next minute might be, but our last. Therefore strive to do our utmost to all peoples, and in all our efforts give God the glory, for it is through Him that we are able.
“Whether there would be a morrow for them or not, whether they should live till tomorrow; and if they should, they knew not what a morrow would bring forth, or what things would happen, which might prevent their intended journey and success: no man can secure a day, an hour, a moment, and much less a year of continuance in this life; nor can he foresee what will befall him today or tomorrow; therefore it is great stupidity to determine on this, and the other, without the leave of God, in whom he lives, moves, and has his being; and by whose providence all events are governed and directed. (See Proverbs 27:1) What assurance can be had of the continuance of it [and] by what may it be expressed or to what may it be compared? [It is as written above], which rises out of the earth, or water, and expires almost as soon as it exists; at least, continues but a very short time, and is very weak and fleeting, and carried about here and there, and soon returns from whence it came: the allusion is to the breath of man, which is in his nostrils, and who is not to be accounted of, or depended on.” - John Gill - Theologian
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