Be Afflicted

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Today I feel sad. Today I have a trigger in the tragedy of someone else's life, nevertheless, the sorrow is mine. What fool came up with the idea to compare your personal struggles to those of others and contrast them for severity? "There are many people who have it so much worse than you!" That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Who feels good that others are hurting worse than them? Or, what help is it to consider that the wretchedness you feel is not even justified, because look, here person X who just got hit by a bus also has no insurance and twelve kids? Bull crap.

This is my meditation at the moment. I began writing this post about a week ago, and titled it from an earlier verse (4:9) of the chapter below, but here, today this is where I am focusing my heart:

Warning about Self-Confidence
13Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” 14How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. 15What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.” 16Otherwise you are boasting about your own plans, and all such boasting is evil.
17Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it.

(James 4:13-17 NLT)

Today, all I'm saying is that you never know what can happen, and nothing is guaranteed. Live your life everyday. Know what you ought to do and then do it.