The Morning Devotional: James 4:13-17 (Part Two)

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 34
January 16, 2026

13 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”— 14 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. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

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The Morning Devotional: James 4:13-17 (Part One)

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 33
January 15, 2026

13 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”— 14 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. 15 Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.” 16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. 17 So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

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The Morning Devotional: James 4:12

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 32
December 19, 2025

12 There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

Season 10 | Edition 32
December 19, 2025

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The Morning Devotional: James 4:11

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 31
December 18, 2025

11 Do not speak evil against one another, brothers.[a] The one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
(James 4:11, ESV)

Season 10 | Edition 31
December 18, 2025

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The Morning Devotional: James 4:6-10

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 30
December 17, 2025

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
(Jameas 4:6-10, ESV)

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The Morning Devotional: James 4:4-5

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 29
December 16, 2025

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5 Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
(James 4:4-5, ESV)

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The Morning Devotional: James 4:1-3

The Morning Devotional
Season 10 | Edition 28
December 15, 2025

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? 2 You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
(James 4:1-3, ESV)

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The Morning Devotional: WCF 20.2

The Morning Devotional for July 5, 2023
The Westminster Confession of Faith 20.2

II. God alone is Lord of the conscience,a and hath left it free from the doctrines and commandments of men which are in anything contrary to his Word, or beside it, in matters of faith or worship.b So that to believe such doctrines, or to obey such commands out of conscience, is to betray true liberty of conscience;c and the requiring of an implicit faith, and an absolute and blind obedience, is to destroy liberty of conscience, and reason also.d

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