Message: What happens when you make a vow to God that if he can do something for you, you would stay true to your vow and when he does it you don't keep your vow? You intended to, but circumstances didn't let you. I prayed for wisdom over this because I'd hate to sound either too dismissive or too permissive when it comes to making vows to God.
Let me offer a few passages, then share what I make of them. I can think of a couple situations in the Old Testament where vows were made to God. When her baby Samuel was weaned possibly age , some scholars suggest he was brought to work with Eli as a fulfillment of the vow.
Should I hide in shame when I move my family out of our home to a small apartment because of bankruptcy? I want to deny that I have broken every vow I have ever made at some point in time. How do I hold my head high and go forward? Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving.
Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, yet again, come, come. After more than seven decades, I have had a lot of practice, and this is what I have learned about broken promises, given or received.
I have learned not to live my life in despair or shame. I can return and begin again. My courage, like the sun, rises new every morning. Read The Mystery of the Dawn. I have learned not only can I begin again, nothing I have experienced is fatal. Clearly, or I would not be sitting here writing about this now. And I have learned about Grace — how to receive it and how to give it. I shall promise creation not to abuse or waste its gifts, knowing that I will continue to eat packaged foods and heat my house with oil.
However, there is one vow I will never take, and it is the vow of perfection. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Thanks for sharing these words of wisdom! Every Sunday I sit with my coffee and read your reflections. Every Sunday I feel I learn a little bit more about myself.
You are not the first person who has told me the same thing. Thank you so much for affirming my process with this blog. Tomorrow I will follow up on that vow that I did not live up to and a few other friends who are having a hard time with isolation and bored with themselves including me. My sister in law is a night person and I am morning. I may not call once a week but surely will try to do better. But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
NASB James Our words show that our plans and promises depend on God with the intent that we will fulfill our obligation to our own hurt. If you make a vow, keep it! Will God punish me for breaking a vow I made when I was younger? Here is an important point to think about. How old must a person be before he or she must keep the vow? Vows have been broken that were made at twenty-one, forty, and even sixty years of age.
It breaks the heart of God to see our causal view of sin. One sin brought sin to all of mankind. Yet, God does not punish us for every sin we commit. I thank Him for His mercy to me. Here is a wonderful verse from the Old Testament.
He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. NASB Psalms
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