The Lord’s Will
“Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow 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 vapor, 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 4:13-15).
There are many things we do that we have to say, “We hope we have the Lord’s mind.” Often we look back and it is confirmed, and maybe sometimes we look back and realize that perhaps we missed His mind. Then we need grace to correct it. How good it is, in every activity of life, to seek the will of the Lord, and then to act in faith and obedience when He shows us. Sometimes the next step may not seem all that clear, but He is with us every mile of the journey of life, and even when we get ahead of the Lord, “thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left” (Isaiah 30:21).
