Numbers
30 A Woman’s Promise
God
doesn’t ask us to make a vow (promise) – it is voluntary- but if we make a vow,
God means business with us, and He will hold us to our promise. Confessing with your mouth is your promise,
that is your statement of faith. The
heart and the mouth must be singing the same tune, in a duet together.
If
a woman makes a vow while she is still single and in her father’s house, the
father can be held responsible for her.
If the father keeps quiet when he hears her make the vow, then that vow
which she made will stand. If he speaks
against the vow, then he is protected in the matter. The vow is not binding. If a married woman
makes a vow, then her husband is responsible for her unless he speaks against
it, then he is protected in the matter.
A
widow must stand on her own two feet.
The vow that she makes stands. These details are important to God. He wants His people always to be as good as
their word. God keeps His vows, and He
expects His children to keep theirs. He has kept His promises in the past and
will keep His promises in the future. “For God so loved the world, that he gave
His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but
have everlasting life.” John 3:16. That is the Word of God, God’s promise to
you and me.
He
wants those who represent Him down here to be that kind of a people. If they make a vow, they should stand by that
vow. This kind of responsibility should
be representative of the Christians in this world today.
Please
read the chapter listed so that you can understand God’s Word better.
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J.
Vernon McGee Commentary and Nelson’s Quick Reference Commentary
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