If the Lord wills….
Steven Key expounds James 4:13-15 to explain the Reformed doctrine of God's sovereign will and its practical implications for daily Christian living. The article emphasizes that God's will is all-comprehensive, efficacious, and should shape how believers speak and plan their futures, submitting their intentions to God's sovereign governance with the confession "If the Lord wills."
Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that. James 4:13-15 As we begin this new year, the inspired James speaks to us. The Holy Spirit sees our need to hear the precious truth...
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