A challenge, as v.13ff says, to do a reality check on life and on our planning for the future. For that's what we are. We get sick. Our job goes poof. One of the kids doesn't turn out the way we had dreamed.
College application is denied.
And so it is that with the grace of the Communion table before us, even little us, that I would like to invite you to join me in considering our futures once more considering them in the light of James 4 considering our attitudes. I would like to invite you to respond to James by taking up the attitude of the Psalmist as we sang it from Psalm 127. We do that to help ourselves avoid, or root out any semblance of self-centred living as James 4 exposes it. We do it to bow our heart and mind before the Lord of all Life in an extended time of prayer. Him as Lord on the throne of life.