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Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:1-5
Song: Stepping In The Light
Society is built upon the giving and receiving of promises. Couples exchange vows at the altar. Employer and employee are contracted together. Your grocery receipt declares that on a given day you paid such and such a price for the listed goods. When a motorist gets his license, he makes an agreement with other drivers to obey the rules of the road. Promises, promises. They’re everywhere.
Promises, in spite of the adage to the contrary, are made to be kept. To speak of a solemn promise is to be unnecessarily wordy. For a promise is a promise. It is solemn in the very nature of the case. For a promise is a living thing. It springs to life when you make a commitment. And it either expires naturally when your vow is fulfilled or prematurely when your vow is terminated by design or neglect.
The life of a promise is a fragile thing. Some are aborted no sooner than they’re conceived. Some are breached. Some endure a lifetime of constant abuse. Some vows are born because of poor planning or the failure to say, “No.” But once begotten, a promise becomes your responsibility. To break a promise is to injure a living thing which you created by an act of your own reason and will.
A promise is the progeny of man. Animals can’t make one. It’s of freewill parentage. You have a choice when you make a promise. Don’t make one unless you’re prepared to keep it.
Jason Moore
