Bragging about plans
September 27, 2019
M I’m Miriam Neff-with STARTING OVER FINANCIALLY,-and I’m Valerie Neff Hogan, and we’re here to talk about money.
M Our favorite financial resource is the Bible. No other money book or investment tool comes close. One theme is to plan ahead. In those agrarian days, consider a field, plant a crop, take care of your herds. Prepare with what you have for tomorrows needs.
V James, the practical author of the Bible book of James cautions. Don’t boast about money plans for tomorrow. James 4:13 says 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.” Clearly people were bragging that they were out to get THEIRS. Verse 14. ‘You don’t even know what will happen tomorrow.’
M Our response, ‘If our Lord wills.’