James moves to interdict reports coming in from the scattered assemblies that practical atheism and self-made independence was spreading due to successful merchants. These men had planned, traveled, established, bought low and sold high, and made a profit. Now they were boasting about it, and James comes back with his challenge: Did you even think about God in your planning? Where is the "If God Wills" humility? And in so doing, James crawls right up into our 21st Century culture with the same questions.
