When We Make An Oath – Sunday Thought For The Day

When we say to another person that we’ll be praying for them, that is a promise made before God. When a person asks us to pray for them and we assure them that we will, that is an oath before God. If we fail to  keep said promises/oaths we make ourselves liars, and Scripture tells us that God takes a very dim view of those who do not tell the truth or keep their word.

An even greater indictment is when the person we assure of our prayers takes for granted that our words are nothing more than platitudes.

God has His reasons for how, when, and whether He answers our prayers when it comes to our desires. But, through faith we can say, “Thy will be done, oh Lord” even as we lift another in prayer. People on our church prayer lists, people who ask us to pray for them, and people whom we pledge to pray for are counting on us to keep our word.

READ:

Ecclesiastes 5:1-6 (KJV)

5 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.

4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?