Life is like a vapor...

Posted : 12 Aug, 2014 02:58 AM

You do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

� James 4:14



Scripture certainly echoes this idea of the shortness of human life. Job said, "Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good" (Job 9:25). David said, "Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You; certainly every man at his best state is but vapor" (Psalm 39:5).



And James posed this question: "For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away" (James 4:14). James wasn't asking a philosophical question but a more descriptive one. A better way to translate it would be, "What sort of life do you have?"



It is also important to note that he was speaking to Christians who were involved in the world of commerce, those who seemed to be taking credit where credit was not due. They were boasting of their ability to make money and be successful, and in the process, they were forgetting all about God. They do not read the Bible daily and they do NOT implement what God says in the Bible. They are in fact NOT Christians anymore...They are DEAD....



The Son of God says to such Christians:angeldevil: :devil::



I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; 3 and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name�s sake and have not become weary. 4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. 5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly ...



The Son of God says:

Repent, or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against them with the sword of My mouth.





The Son of God says:

These things says the Son of God, who has eyes like a flame of fire, and His feet like fine brass...

And I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality, and she did not repent....

Indeed I will cast her into a sickbed, and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation, unless they repent of their deeds. 23 I will kill her children with death, and all the churches shall know that I am He who searches the minds and hearts. And I will give to each one of you according to your works.



The Son of God says:

I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die, for I have not found your works perfect before God. 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard; hold fast and repent. Therefore if you will not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.



He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments:angel:, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels.



The Son of God says:

These things says the Amen, the Faithful and True Witness, the Beginning of the creation of God: 15 �I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I could wish you were cold or hot. 16 So then, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of My mouth. 17 Because you say, �I am rich, have become wealthy, and have need of nothing��and do not know that you are wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked� 18 I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined in the fire, that you may be rich; and white garments, that you may be clothed, that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed; and anoint your eyes with eye salve, that you may see. 19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent. 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.



To him who overcomes I will grant to sit with Me on My throne, as I also overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.



Those Christians and sinners who live in sins will be judged by the Son of God because He is the JUDGE during the coming Judgement.



Then He who sat on the throne said, �Behold, I make all things new.� And He said to me, �Write, for these words are true and faithful.�



6 And He said to me, �It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirsts. 7 He who overcomes shall inherit all things, and I will be his God and he shall be My son. 8 But the cowardly, unbelieving:angeldevil:, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral:winksmile:, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.�

Revelation 21



The Son of God says:

�And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work. 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.�

�Behold, I am coming quickly!"



�Come!� And let him who hears say, �Come!�



�Surely I am coming quickly.�



Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!





It is always dangerous for us to take credit for what God has given us the ability to do. God warns that He will not share His glory with another. So let's be careful to not forget God in our lives.

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