A Bragging Fog

“I am married now, but have no idea whether or not it is God’s will for me to be married tomorrow. How would a mist know something like that? This is why James tells people not to boast, saying that they will go here and there, making big bucks as they go. he says that they ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills . . .’ He does not say that they ought to pray all night, and then pronounce that God has told them to go here and there, making the big money. If it is arrogant to commit the former error, to place ‘the will of God’ upon the declarations of a bragging fog in the latter instance is far worse” (Mother Kirk, p. 210).