Keeping Your Word

God always keeps His word, being faithful to do everything He says He is going to do! You can always count on God!

The questions I am pondering this morning is "Can God always count on me to keep my word?", and "If I tell God I am going to do something, do I follow through?".

Giving our word to God that we will do something is the same as giving our word to our neighbor that we will do something. What we say to God will have to be walked out in the natural. God does not simply want our lip service and neither does our neighbor. Where would we be if God only gave us lip service? Lip service never accomplishes anything; it is dead works. "Action" is the proof in the pudding so to speak. Faith without action always results in dead works; as do words with no weight.

Matthew 5:33 says, "Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord." and in verse 37 it says, "Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes', and your 'No' be 'No'; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.

My husband, son, and myself stopped to pay an elderly neighbor a visit the other night. We had a precious time together as she showed us her beautiful gardens and the work she has had done to her house. She made reference several times that many people stop and tell her that "all she needs to do is...". Things like filling holes in her yard, clipping back perennials etc. They have told her that they would stop by and help her with such and such. While there, she shared how she was allergic to bees. Upon seeing a nest above her front door, my husband said he would take it down. He reached up and simply took it down for her. She had a rose bush that needed to be pruned but didn't have anything to cut it with so I told her I would do it. The next day the rose bush was pruned. Basic simple acts of service.

I received a call from her last night and was shocked by her overflowing gratitude and appreciation for helping her. She said to me, "Many people say they are going to do something for me, but no one has ever actually followed through and done it." This is a statement made by one of the kindest and most giving people I know.

God wants our commitment. He wants us to keep our word by doing what we say we will do. We will have to apply action to our words. God often uses the most simplest of things to test our faithfulness and devotion to him. Keep your word to God for whatever you do, remember, you do unto Him.