Hill Country Bible Church

Maybe

Posted: Mar 27, 2011 by Bri Thomas

"Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It's a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." -James 4:14
 
After hitting the snooze button as many times as possible, we groggily crawl out of bed to splash water on our faces, curl our hair a bit, grab our Starbucks, and make it to class or work in time...if we're lucky. We go throughout our day, checking in where we should when needed, spending countless hours checking our phones and Facebooks, checking off the hours as they roll by. When the end of the day finally arrives, we enter end-of-the-day mode and maybe hit the gym or catch up on our shows on hulu. We shower and check our email accounts again then crawl into bed to prepare for the next day...where we'll do the same mundane, routine all over again.
 
Maybe your life has a little more excitement and diversity than this. Maybe you don't even like Starbucks. The point is, though, we take everyday for granted. We live according to lists and planners, checking off appointments and tasks as we finish. Now, of course, studying needs to be done, as does that big assignment your boss put you on, but for the most part, the way we're going about life is all wrong.
 
James 4:14 clearly states that this little routine we're going through on Earth is a mist. It could end in five seconds, two years, or three decades...all which are, when it really comes down to it, nothing...compared to eternity.
 
We cannot know when our alarm will decide not to go off, making us late. We can't predict the moment when our professor decides to move the deadline of that project up to this Friday. We do not know when the drunk driver next to us will not be paying attention when switching lanes. We cannot guess when our grandmother will be diagnosed when breast cancer.
 
Your life is a mist. It's simply this gateway to the better, a short time to rally up believers, to live for Christ. What matters is the decisions we make and the processes we go through. What matters is realizing that this is not life; our life is with Jesus and awaits us above.