“D.V.” refers to the Latin phrase, “Deo Volente” and means, “God willing.”"
James 4:13-17 tells us why we should use it often:
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. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.(James 4:13-17)."
The air I breathe is the oxygen of autonomy. This is the antithesis of the Gospel. Small reminders like this can serve in huge ways.
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I always wondered what those letters stood for. For about a year, I've been very intentional about using "Lord willing" when I talk to people about planting a church or going to grad school. D.V. is a great shorthand way to do that in writing
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