THURSDAY, April 10th, 2008

James 4:11-17

11 Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
13 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:
14 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.
15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
17 Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

Well, todays devos are something we all have had our problems with: saying someothing bad about someone. Have you ever done that before? You may not understand what verse 11 means when it goes on and on talking about the judge and the lawgiver, so let me explain. The idea here is that when you or I talk bad about someone, we are judging them. This passage makes it clear that we have no right to judge, God is the only judge and therefore if we see someone doing something that we do not like, we really have no right in and of ourselves to look down on them. That idea finishes by stating that there is only one law giver, and that is God. He is the only judge.

The second part of these seven verses go on to talk about the rest of your life. It says, who do you think that you are to put off things until tomorrow. It says that you do not know if tomorrow will come, and even if it does come, it will go by so fast (as a vapor) that you will not even believe it. So what should we do about it? Dont put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Like witnessing to your friend, like reading your Bible, like inviting that stranger to church. DO IT TODAY!

YOU GUYS ARE DOING GREAT! STAY FAITHFUL! WE ARE KEEPING TRACK OF WHO IS DOING THEIR DEVOS, SO DO THEM EVERY DAY! IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMEENTS JUST SEND ME AN EMAIL! THANKS!

GET IN THE WORD!