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."
We (me included) love those phrases like "I can't wait till it's Friday" or "Yay! We are halfway through the week" or "only 123 days until school's out!", and we get so busy planning for tomorrow or looking to the future, we forget about today.
It's so easy to just discard the day, dismiss it as just another manic Monday, but in these few verses, God is telling us instead of discarding and constantly planning for tomorrow, live for today.
You're only a mist that won't be hanging around on planet earth for long. Seize the day!
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