James: Wisdom for when it’s the Lord’s will

James 4:13-17

• Our will for our lives
  • ¹³ 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.” ¹⁴ 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. ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
• The Lord’s will
  • ¹⁵ Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.” 
• The Lord’s will for our lives
  • ¹⁷ If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.