“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.’ As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes.
All such boasting is evil. If anyone,
then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.” —James
4:13-17
The
image accompanying this post is St. James
the Apostle (1516), by the German
Northern Renaissance painter Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
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