July 28, 2026
James 4: 13-16 "Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil." ESV
So it's wrong to plan. Really, this is talking about the man who had a huge crop and built houses and said I'll just kick back and enjoy life and that night he died. There is nothing wrong with planning but planning should always include God. We can't see what the next hour holds but God see's the beginning with the end. It is arrogant to think we have control over everything especially our future.
