Good morning!
As I was checking my email this morning, I ran across an email that started with "Holiday like you mean it."
It was an email from a store, so I thought to myself, "Wow, they REALLY want me to go shopping." But, the more I thought about it, I focused on the last part of it, "like you mean it."
We should celebrate like we mean it. In fact, maybe we should do all things like we mean it.
What does the Bible say about keeping promises?
There are a few ways to think of this. Generally keeping commitments is one way, but to me, it's about keeping promises.
Two verses came to mind related to keeping promises. Matthew 5:37 and James 4:17.
I'm going to focus on the words of Jesus found in Matthew 5:37. He says:
All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. (NIV)
If I ask myself whether I'm going to do something, like morning devotions, and then don't follow through on the yes I gave myself, what just happened? Did we break our word? Did we let Satan in?
Let's back up and read the verse in context with the ones around it. We'll go back to verse 33 and read more of what Jesus said.
"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.' But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God's throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. All you need to say is simply 'Yes' or 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one."
In the NIV Grace and Truth Study Bible, Dr. Mohler clarifies for us that:
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