If God wills, I will live and do this or that

If God wills I will live and do this or that. 

The decisive willing in all of my doing is God. To use an example, If God wills, I will eat breakfast tomorrow morning before I go to work or not. I want to have breakfast but the decisive willing, in eating my breakfast is God. This is why James rebukes the attitudes of those who presume that their will is sovereign. James says, “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.” James‬ ‭4:13-16‬ 

Prov 19:21 says “Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.” It is the Lord's will that stands and it always does. There is no situation where His sovereign will does not stand because nothing in this world is independent of Him. We all have our being in God. 

It is right to plan and to will because we are called to do this. But all of our plans and willing is always subject to if the Lord wills. This is the Christian way of life. the Christian knows this. It is not luck or chance for those things are nothing, but it all depends on God, so we pray. Let your will be done!

K.Oni