2025-05-04

Keeping Your Word

Making promises you don't intend to keep is not only wrong, it is breaking the ninth commandment. One of the most common offenses is when someone says, please keep this in confidence, and then you turn around and tell someone. No matter how you sugarcoat it, it is dishonest. Justifying all the honorable reasons why you chose not to keep your word does not make it right; it is, in fact, a sin. Nor does it make it okay if you don't come out and actually tell, but hint enough for the person to figure it out. That is still not honoring your word. Not only are you breaking God's commandments, but your reputation is damaged as well. Others will label you as not dependable and worse, your integrity is compromised. The Bible says in Jeremiah 17:10, “I, the Lord, search the heart and examine the mind to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve”. God wants us to honor Him by being honest, truthful, and dependable, and to always keep our word. Text: Matthew 5:37, Numbers 30:2, Ecclesiastes 5:4-7, Proverbs 11:3 © Brenda Walsh Ministries https://brendawalsh.com/