Do you really mean ‘God willing’ when you say it?

Lizzy Smallwood  |  Features  |  the ENd word
Date posted:  5 Sep 2025
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Do you really mean ‘God  willing’ when you say it?

'You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.' Source: iStock

This month we are considering “respectable sin” number seven – playing God – (or as my autocorrect preferred: playing golf !).

James 4v13-14 says: “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.”

This is probably the most innocent looking symptom of all our adulterous dealings: the way we plan our lives.

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