How many promises have you broken today? Did you make a promise of convenience and then dismiss it from your mind saying that it doesn't matter because they are just children? How are your marriage vows holding up, you know the one to love no matter what? As the shine has left the relationship do you still care for them or have you found a new interest? Has the wear of the years tattered your promises into meaningless words?
I am amazed when I go shopping with my wife. When she writes out her checks for her purchases at the stores she frequents, often I hear the clerks tell her that they don't need to see her ID. I even heard one of the managers telling a clerk not to ask to see her ID because "TJ is the most honest woman in Port Orchard."How good is your word? Ask your children, your spouse, they will tell you (if they aren't afraid of you).
We are so easy with our word. The day was that a handshake was good enough as a guarantee, but now we have to sign ten reams of paper to ensure our compliance to a contract. How good is your word today? When you say that it will be done, will it? The sad situation is that we as Christians are, as a group, oath-breakers. Sarcasm edges these words because Christianity is based on just that... a promise. God made you a promise, that if you relied on his name that he would save you. Now I am not here to dispute the entire requirement needed for salvation but rather I am here to point out the irony in the fact that God made us a promise and we expect people to believe us about that promise when we can't even be trusted to keep our own. Here we are, the representatives of God, and we can't be trusted with the little things. Think how sad that is.
Did you break your word to a person who knew that you are a Christian? Perhaps you are why he doesn't believe in the promise of God. For you, it was just a minor thing, for him, why should he trust what you say about a promise from God?
I am amazed when I go shopping with my wife. When she writes out her checks for her purchases at the stores she frequents, often I hear the clerks tell her that they don't need to see her ID. I even heard one of the managers telling a clerk not to ask to see her ID because "TJ is the most honest woman in Port Orchard."How good is your word? Ask your children, your spouse, they will tell you (if they aren't afraid of you).
We are so easy with our word. The day was that a handshake was good enough as a guarantee, but now we have to sign ten reams of paper to ensure our compliance to a contract. How good is your word today? When you say that it will be done, will it? The sad situation is that we as Christians are, as a group, oath-breakers. Sarcasm edges these words because Christianity is based on just that... a promise. God made you a promise, that if you relied on his name that he would save you. Now I am not here to dispute the entire requirement needed for salvation but rather I am here to point out the irony in the fact that God made us a promise and we expect people to believe us about that promise when we can't even be trusted to keep our own. Here we are, the representatives of God, and we can't be trusted with the little things. Think how sad that is.
Did you break your word to a person who knew that you are a Christian? Perhaps you are why he doesn't believe in the promise of God. For you, it was just a minor thing, for him, why should he trust what you say about a promise from God?
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