Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"-- yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that." As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. (17) So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

Lord, how often I fail to acknowledge that You are in control of all things, that it is You who causes the sun to rise each morning and set each evening and everything else. I, then, must be faithful in recognizing Your hand of mercy in controlling and ordering my life. The Lord willing, I will such and such must be the watch word of my speech. It also serves to remind me that I need to be constantly alert to evaluate every word out of my mouth, every action I am about to take, to insure that You are being glorified. You are Lord and Master of my life.

Today's readings in the Psalms:

Morning: Psalm 19

Mid-day: 119:123-128

Evening: Psalm 94

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