James 4:13-17
Boasting About Tomorrow
13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money." 14 Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. 15 Instead, you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that." 16 As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.17 Anyone, then who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it, sins.
St. James teaches us that only God knows what is going to happen in the future...Life is but a short breath, a mist and then it is gone...So we should always pray His will be done...Then we should thank and give praise to Him for this guidance...
We should not boast or brag...All boasting is evil...We should be humble and do His will...
St. Paul teaches and gives us good advice about boasting...If we must boast, boast about the LORD...