EXCESSIVE SELF-CONFIDENCE

 

TEXT: James 4 vs 13-17

Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” ¹⁴ How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. ¹⁵ What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” ¹⁶ Otherwise you are boasting about your own pretentious plans, and all such boasting is evil.
                       ¹⁷  Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

No one knows what the future holds. No one knows what his life will be like tomorrow. No one knows if he will sleep and wake up to see the next morning. It is only God that can tell. He alone knows what our tomorrow will be like.

Being self-confident is not a problem but when it becomes excess, it might take away our dependency on God. We must learn not to be excessively over-confident. 

In the book of Philippians 2:19, Apostle Paul used the word "If God Wills" when He talked about sending Timothy back to the Philippi people. He knew it wasn't in his power alone to send Timothy back but can only be possible if God allows it so.

We must always allow our will to be in alignment with God's will.  Let's learn to constantly use the word "IF GOD WILLS" in whatever we plan to do.