Today Is Precious
Our Daily Bread Podcast
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🗓️ 10 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | You do not even know what will happen tomorrow. |
| 0:04.4 | James 4, verse 14. |
| 0:08.5 | Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.7 | Today is precious. |
| 0:14.2 | Was written and read by Kirsten Holmberg. |
| 0:25.2 | James, chapter 4, verses 13 through 17. |
| 0:32.8 | Now listen, you who say today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, |
| 0:36.2 | spend a year there, carry on business and make money. |
| 0:40.0 | 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. |
| 0:49.3 | Instead, you ought to say, if it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that. |
| 0:57.0 | As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. |
| 1:00.8 | All such boasting is evil. |
| 1:03.1 | If anyone then knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them. |
| 1:12.2 | Today is precious. Today is precious. |
| 1:16.2 | Vietnamese collector FOMM has salvaged 20 church clocks from around Europe, many of which had been replaced with electronic versions. |
| 1:27.0 | One clock made in Italy dates back to 1750, and remarkably still keeps time accurately. |
| 1:36.7 | Fom enjoys restoring and preserving the time pieces, saying they remind him of how precious time is and to savor each moment. |
| 1:47.0 | In James 4, the writer encouraged his readers to recognize the preciousness of time by reminding |
| 1:54.0 | them that their lives are like a mist that appears for a little while before vanishing. James warned against making plans to go to this or |
| 2:05.3 | that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money without consulting God. Instead of |
| 2:13.2 | presuming on God for the timing and success of their ventures, he reminded them that they do not even |
| 2:19.6 | know what will happen tomorrow. Designing our own successes is actually boastful and arrogant |
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