HOW IMPORTANT IS YOUR
“YES & NO”
Brother James, OIC
Mat 5:37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
So many today miss what the intent of the above scripture means. Often under the banner of good intentions they hurt instead of help someone, consequences being they hurt their selves in the long run. A good example of someone needing to let their no be no is one who is an Enabler whose mind is telling them to put their foot down and say no but their hearts for whatever reason wants to keep saying yes How many times has a friend or family member bailed out someone from a financial crisis who was on drugs or just not willing to work and manage their money? An example of those who need to let their yes be yes are those who commit to help someone truly in need but in the end, for whatever reason, they didn’t do what they said. Both of these are examples are of double mindedness, the most unstable condition to be in before God. Until a commitment to self is made to keep your word then a lack of commitment will also exist in the Word of Truth. Simply put God can work with those who are faithful to their cause whether its hot or cold, in darkness or in Light, God can effect a work in those who are faithful in their word.
Imagine if Jesus couldn’t be relied on to fulfill Gods Promises in our lives, there would be no salvation temporally nor eternally.
2Co 1:18-20 But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay. For the Sonof God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea. For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.
I personally have more commitments than I can count. I often over commit myself in my desire to help someone in need, yet I count it a privilege to do so knowing Christ did the same for me. This is what laying down your life for another is about. I am now determined if I commit then I do it anything less for any reason is not from God. I’ve learned no matter what situation God will take care of me as long as I let my yes be yes and my no be no.
Jas 1:5 -8 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Realizing the value in Gods Kingdom of keeping your word, you will then grow in Gods Truth until your word is aligned with Gods Word and His Life is formed within you.
