What is your Life?

James 4:13-17

13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will[g] go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit”; 14 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. 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.

     One of the greatest messages I have ever heard was by Leonard Ravenhill on the verse that mentions "What is your life?". The question is posed to have of us consider what are life really is, what we really believe in, what do we hold on to so much that makes all the difference to us? Is it worth living for?...is it worth dying for?

When we look at the broad scope of reality our life is as it says here, it's like a vapor that appears for awhile and then its gone. There is no two ways about it, the bible says "And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment." We are all destined to die, but the good news the life we live after does not have to be in chaos, it does not have to be in corruption. Jesus Christ became a man and took the weight of Gods wrath, something we were deserving of but out of His mercy Jesus died for the sins of the whole world that whosoever should believe in Him would not perish into eternal judgement but have everlasting life. 

What is our life but a vapor that appears for a little time. That once verse alone shook my world when I buried a dear friend of mine over a 11 years ago. The passage came back to my mind as I heard the news of another dear friend of mine who recently passed away. She was a sweet lady  and cancer struck her suddenly, one day she was fine and all of the sudden she didn't feel well and ended up in the hospital....what is our life but a vapor. What do we do with what we know are we taking advantage that the Son has set us free. The Son who is Jesus Christ the Messiah. Paul writes to the Romans "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." 

To put off who the Lord is- who has been revealed to us by the Spirit through His Word is choosing to live a wasted life, its a sobering but its a wise thing to ask yourself what is your life?

Amen