Mist around Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, OR
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." James 4:13-15
James writes that we are a mist that appears on this earth for a little while, I can’t say I think of my life in this way, Focused on the day to day things I often take my mind off of Jesus.
Solomon accomplishment much in his lifetime. He expanded his nation, built the temple and became very wealthy, and yet towards the end of his life he writes:
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun.
Jesus said, “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.”
May the Lord help me to maintain my focus on him.
