“When
you tell God you’ll do something, do it – now.
God takes no pleasure in foolish gabble.
Vow it, then do it. Far better
not to vow in the first place than to vow and not pay up. Don’t let your mouth make a total sinner of
you. When called to account, you won’t
get by with ‘Sorry, I didn’t mean it.’
Why risk provoking God to angry retaliation? But against all illusion and fantasy and
empty talk there’s always this rock foundation:
Fear God!”
Ecclesiastes
5:4-7
Remember when you were a kid, and you and your
friends made a promise, and you would do the ‘pinky promise’. That meant you were absolutely, positively
going to keep your word. One
of my biggest pet peeves is people promising or agreeing to do something, and
not keeping their word. Unfortunately
there is a lot of that in the body of Christ.
We commit to a ministry or committee with our words, but we are severely
lacking in the actual work. Other ‘things’
take priority over the commitment or vow we made. We have a real lackadaisical (lacking
enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy) attitude towards the work of
ministry.
As
much as I am aggravated by this type of behavior, just consider for a moment
how God feels. If you had to stand
before God today and explain why you didn’t keep your vow, what excuse would
you give? What if God treated our prayer
requests the same way we treat our vows to Him?
We would be a sorry bunch of Christians!
The
Word says, “Don’t let your mouth make a
total sinner of you”. Let’s begin
today with a renewed commitment to the vows we’ve made. The body of Christ needs your service. Jesus laid down His life for us, the least we
can do is keep our vow to Him!
Margaret Slaughter
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