Our Life is Like a Mist (James 4:14)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 12 May 2022
⏱️ 4 minutes
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In this episode of Pray the Word on James 4:14, David Platt reminds Christians that our life is like a mist leaving no day guaranteed.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platte is a resource from Radical.net. |
| 0:04.0 | James chapter 4 verse 14. What is your life for you are a mist that appears for a little time |
| 0:10.7 | and then vanishes when a humbling verse isn't it? Think about your life this way |
| 0:16.0 | as a mist as a vapor that appears for just a little time and that's the phrase the Bible |
| 0:22.8 | uses to describe your life in my life. It's a little time. It's vanishing. It vanishes |
| 0:29.3 | just like that. It's a mist. It's there for a second and gone like to see our lives this way |
| 0:36.4 | and to live for what matters most to make every moment count to realize not one of us is guaranteed |
| 0:46.0 | tomorrow and so to live today in light of that reality and to realize this is not just us. |
| 0:52.4 | This is everybody's life around us. There's not a person around us who's guaranteed tomorrow. |
| 0:58.0 | Doesn't that change the urgency we have to share the gospel with people? Not one person around us |
| 1:04.2 | is guaranteed tomorrow. Even as we're praying for the people of Afghanistan this month, |
| 1:10.3 | at the Pashtun, the southern Pashtun people of Afghanistan, over nine and a half million of them. |
| 1:17.0 | You know how many of them are followers of Jesus? 0.02%. That's not 2%. That's less than 1%. That's |
| 1:27.2 | 2.100 of a percent who are followers of Jesus. That means hardly any and most of those nine and a half |
| 1:35.1 | million have little to no knowledge of Jesus. Do we feel the urgency here with our lives being |
| 1:40.9 | a mist? Their lives being a mist. God help us. We pray to feel James 414, to feel the shortness, |
| 1:50.7 | the little nature of our lives, the little time we have here, the vanishing time we have here. |
| 1:57.0 | God help us to feel this, to realize this, and to love well today, and to live well today, |
| 2:02.8 | to love well today in light of this reality. God help us to love you with every moment we have, |
| 2:07.6 | with all our heart and all our soul and all our mind and all our strength. Help us to love others |
| 2:11.7 | around us well today. To point them to you, Jesus, to point them to eternal life in you, |
| 2:17.6 | to encourage other brothers and sisters in Christ, toward that and to lead people who are apart from |
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