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Sat 4th July – Read James 4:16-17
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Sat 4th July – Read James 4:16-17
V16: Again in stark terms, James rebukes the arrogance of boasting about our own plans and our ability to fulfil them. We might wonder if he is addressing believers in such terms – may even ask if this is a circular letter sent to a wide range of locations, how can he know this is relevant to their circumstances and spiritual conditions? But again, we need to see such verses as a warning against our frailty and proneness to sin, (remember 1 Corinthians 10:12.) and to guard against the all-too human tendency to feel ourselves to be self-sufficient, and to boast about what “we” will do.
V17: If we know, from God’s Word, what is right, yet do not do it, we are sinning against knowledge. So much of James’ letter is really a call to the obedient walk of faith which should mark the Christian life. Remember the Lord’s own words in John 14:15.