NOW LISTEN

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. 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. Instead, you

ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this

or that.” As it is, you boast and brag. All such boasting is evil.

Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t

do it,sins.

Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery

that is coming upon you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths hav

eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion

will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded

wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workmen

who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the

harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived

on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in

the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered innocent men,

who were not opposing you.

Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits

for the land to yield its va;luable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and

spring rains. You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.

Don’t grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged. The judge is

standing at the door!

(James 4.13-16; 5.1-9).

HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!