When you make a vow to God, don’t delay fulfilling it, because he does not delight in fools. Fulfill what you vow. —Ecclesiastes 5:4
There is no world in which we can offer God something in exchange for anything we desire, since we come with needful, empty hands. Contrary to every popular movie on the subject, the God of the universe simply doesn’t do bargains.
So he who never makes a vow is better off than he who cannot keep the vows he makes, since the ultimate vow has already been made, and kept, when Christ gave Himself on the cross. His body wrote the cosmic check for us, paid our cosmic debt, kept the vow He made from the foundation of the world—that He would keep a people set apart for Himself, keep them safe through the generations, and fulfill all promises because He knew we could not. Through Christ, all bets are off. We are free to worship in Spirit and truth—no need to “swear oaths,” no need for futile attempts at keeping them, no guilt over forgetting they’ve been made.
It’s done.
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Wisdom’s Call: 100 Meditations for a Life in Christ ©2023 K.A. Ellis. Used by permission of Moody Publishers.
Scripture taken from The CSB
Make it Personal
As you pray, set aside time to listen to what the Lord has to say to you and not speak at all.