This morning I read James 4:13-15:
"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.' 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. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that.'"
Be careful of believing your own press. Arrogance can take you to a place that does not lead to life, health and peace. Remember who and whose you are. You are not Creator and Sustainer, God is. This is the Father's world and you are but a small part of it.
With that said, you are also part of God's special creation bearing His image. As a follower of Jesus, God dwells within my being - He IS my being and my life!! I am to be a visionary, creative, life restoring force in this world of brokenness. It is not to be ushered from arrogance and pride, however. It is service from a place of humble excitement for what the day, month, year, lifetime may hold.
God is good and He wills to live that goodness through you. Don't taint it with pride.
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