Wight Wednesday – Keeping Your Word

Most of us will know this feeling. You start reading a daily devotion (eg bible in 365 days) and well it actually takes more like 2 years or worse never even gets finished. At my church our pastor Martin Mcrory has written “Mouth Wash – 30 days to taming the tongue”. I thought great this is for me, maybe it will teach me to improve how I speak to people. It has taken me probably 1 1/2 weeks to be on devotion number 3. This one when I read it I was like woah.

Psalm 15:4 says “…who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and does not change their mind…”

Psalm 110:4 says “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind…”

Keeping your promises is very important. It makes people want to be your friend and makes them want to make an effort to do things with you and they will be able to rely on you more. People around you will enjoy you more and will be able to trust you.

Luke 16:10 says “Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.”

Martin says “A man/woman is as good as their word. You should endevour from here-on-out to fulfill your undertakings no matter how you’re feeling, no matter how difficult, no matter what the weather. Your character will strengthen when you push thru obstacles. Always keep your promises come-what-may!”

No matter what the weather or how you feeling, eish that’s a tough one.

Every mon, wed, fri at 8:30 my mom goes to exercise class and she drops me at the gym on her way. Often weather or laziness gets the better of us. Now if one of us does not want to go then neither of us go. We motivate each other to go. Now I figured this would be a great time to practice what I have learnt. If I do it right my mom should never miss a class.

Remember God promised never to flood the earth again and he has stuck to His promise.

So all in all try to keep your word, be it big (getting a pet for your child) or small (like gym class with mom).