Making Promises to God
One thing we must watch for, it is keeping our promises to God. It is so easy at one time to make a casual promise to Him and then forget or discard as not so important...but God has not forgotten and that is why this verse warn of danger. It is a trap for a man to [speak a vow of consecration and] say rashly, “it is holy!” And [not until] afterward consider [whether he can fulfill it] (Proverbs 20:25) Now in the book of Judges 11:30-31 a man by the name of: Jephthah made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed give the Ammonites into my hand. Then whatever comes out of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites, it shall be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up as a burnt offering.” As you read on in that same chapter you realize that it is his own unique virgin daughter that he had to sacrifice. Today this would not be allowed but in biblical times it was ...