Nun - Faithlessness or the breaking of covenants represents one of the great moral shifts of our day. Whether it’s a business contracts, employer/employee agreements, marriage covenants, it hardly matters. The prevailing trend dictates if the situation becomes uncomfortable or falls below our expectations then break the contract. Sadly, promises to God often fare no better. Popular entertainment boasts thousands of individuals who discovered their gifts in church when God had first priority in their lives. As they got older however, popularity and money superseded. The need to be loyal to God became secondary to fitting in or getting ahead. In time they walked away from their vows.
The Psalmist takes a different approach. He says I gave my word. The verse following implies the decision to be faithful exposed the writer to danger but he refused to back down. God reciprocated and did just as he promised to do in Psalm 91: 14-15, “thee.” Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my Name. Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my Name.,” and Isaiah 26:3, “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
In our day at least in North America, our biggest deal breakers are not the things Paul describe but rather the good life. We should ask what shall separate us from the love of God? Shall ease, or comfort, or acclaim, or plenty, or designer clothing, or security, or freedom? I have sworn to follow Christ and will not break my vow. I will use the light of his word on my path and walk as he leads. I will allow neither fame, nor affluence, nor anything of this world’s good, “to separate (me) from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”©8/2010
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