Making Promises

 

Making Promises

Proverbs 6:1-5 “My son, if

you become surety for your friend, if you have shaken hands in a pledge, you are ensnared by your mouth; You are taken by the words of your mouth. So do this, my son, and deliver yourself; For you have come into the hand of your friend. Go and humble yourself, plead with your friend.”

When we make promises to others, we also make promises to God. Our words become a statement and cause us to become a liar when we don’t carry them out. I know that there are circumstances that can happen that could keep us from carrying out our promises. When that happens, we must always be honest with the person we made the promise to.

When we gave our self over to God, we made the promise to obey Him and His commandments. God tells us that as long as we keep His commandments and statutes, He will bless us continuously. He also tells us that if we don’t then curse will come upon us. We then must decide, whether we want blessings or cursing’s. We must keep our promises to God, thereby keeping our words intact, where we don’t make promises that we cannot keep. Keeping our promises to others gives us a sense of accomplishment, a good feeling from the one we fulfilled the promise. When we don’t fulfill our promise, there is a sense of remorse and a need to explain our actions.

We can’t take back our promise to God. We sealed it with our baptism, but we can be careful of what we promise to others. When we make promises to God, He waits for us to carry them out. When we don’t, He holds back the blessings that He set aside for us. Let us strive to take our promises to God and to others more seriously.

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Please read the scriptures listed, study them, apply them to your life and grow in the saving relationship with Jesus Christ our Savior.