Your Word
Pastor Henry talked about the Jesus' inconvenient truth in Matthew 5 :31-37.Jesus summed it up by saying, "Let your 'yes' be 'yes' and your 'no' be 'no' ." When we make a promise, it's important to follow through with what we said we would do or people will lose their trust in us. The question of the week is: When is it hard to let your 'yes' be 'yes' and your 'no' be 'no'? In the Message, verse 37 reads "Just say 'yes' and 'no.' When you manipulate words to get your own way, you go wrong." If we are being self-centered and manipulative, we will embellish our words and say things we don't mean to get our own way. But if God is in the center, we will only say what we mean.
I was also thinking about how sometimes it's hard to follow through with our side of a promise if the other person has hurt our feelings. We try to justify breaking the agreement and it becomes terribly self-centered. The way to healing is not to hurt the person back, but to finding the wholeness and integrity Jesus promises when we believe in Him and do what he says.
Labels: Sermon on the Mount
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