Rain-checks abound in the human agenda. There is never a future appointment that we can secure as humans living in a sin-cursed and fallen world. Although this is true, many of us have so grown accustomed to scheduled events, alarm clocks, planners, and watches that we often go to the extreme of believing our future plans are as certain as the rising sun. When we become so convinced in our daily agendas that we fail to express our utter dependence upon God for everything, this is when we are miserably arrogant in our boasting. So does this mean that all planning is ‘of the devil’? No, for why would Paul develop plans to visit churches and preach the gospel in Spain and other places? So what does James mean when he tells us this in James 4:13-17: “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 l