Keeping Our Word

Keeping Our Word

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:1 (NASB)


Some of the more senior of us may remember when a man’s word was his bond; few contracts, attorneys or lawsuits were needed. Native Americans in the 1800’s coined a phrase that echoes down through history to this day: “white man speaks with forked tongue”. Sounds like even then the U.S government gained a reputation for breaking treaties maybe?

If we intend to associate ourselves with God’s nature as Christians, know that God’s truth comes from His congruency with His Word. In other words, if God said one thing and did another, He would be a hypocrite or a liar, in which case He would not be God. How is it that we as made in the image of God or reflecting His image place little or no priority on keeping our word? Psalm 15 says, “He swears to his own hurt and does not change;”
Psalms 15:4 (NASB)

Promise Breaking Parents

Word or promise breaking parents do untold damage to their children as well as the heritage. Parents who do not keep their word destroy their child’s trust in their own relationship as well as in other relationships as well. They are remembered as a parent that perhaps didn’t show up for promised outings, didn’t pay the child’s allowance or other matters.

Political Promise Breakers

Politicians who keep their word go down in history as heroes and statesmen. Politicians who make promises who do not keep their word or continue to protect the integrity of the truth and integrity of it’s citizens, especially in governmental matters are remembered throughout history as charlatans and or villains. Our founding fathers emphatically stated that not only is truth, integrity is essential for the longevity of our nation, but that it is inseparable from our relationship of knowing our God in Spirit and Truth. If we have any crisis of this age, it is a famine of the integrity of our word. The stark contrast between former President Ronald Reagan and Barak Obama, who as facts unfold that we were mislead during the campaign is Muslim, is a dim reminder. Many legal environments are filled with inconsistencies, contradictions or worse.



Mixture in Spiritual Matters

It is said that a well known eastern religion allows for deception in two cases: 1) when attempting to gain advantage over your adversary and 2.) attempting to gain advantage over your wife. Those inherent allowances for contradictions to the truth overshadow contracts or agreements with those who practice that belief system whatever it is. To enter into agreements or life contracts with those who practice those belief systems is to enter into a minefield where no standard for truth exists. To follow the logic, it concludes the god of that system allows for contradictions to truth, concluding that brings doubt to any statement, agreement or promise by that god or so called deity, in essence by the own words of that deity may be a mixture of truth and lie, or outright lie. That shifting standard of truth can be adjusted to the immediate need of the liar, certainly not to any eternal Apriori standard.
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life” which in His own words establishes Him as the solid rock, the head of the corner, not of this world of shifting standards of truth. Governments come and go; His standard of truth changes not. It follows that trust in Him is justified for our salvation.

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Gary Woodroffe