Why Don't People Honor Vows?

[In the Clouds]

God made covenants.  He never broke any.  He has always been faithful and stood by His promises.   Sometimes He grows us with instructions and new understandings.  We can be pretty feeble and "human."  So why do we make vows and sometimes fail?

[Tristen]

Humans are corrupted beyond the capacity to do what we know to be right. This is why we all need a Savior.

John 15:5
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

Mark 14:38
Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

 

[Who me]

8 hours ago, In the Clouds said:

God made covenants.  He never broke any.  He has always been faithful and stood by His promises.   Sometimes He grows us with instructions and new understandings.  We can be pretty feeble and "human."  So why do we make vows and sometimes fail?

Why do people disobey Jesus and make vows?

Matthew 5:33 “Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not break your oath, but fulfill to the Lord the vows you have made.’ 34 But I tell you, do not swear an oath at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; 35 or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. 36 And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black. 37 All you need to say is simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything beyond this comes from the evil one.[g]

[Neighbor]

10 hours ago, In the Clouds said:

God made covenants.  He never broke any.  He has always been faithful and stood by His promises.   Sometimes He grows us with instructions and new understandings.  We can be pretty feeble and "human."  So why do we make vows and sometimes fail?

Let your yes be yes and your no be no. Man fails because man does not keep it simple, man over thinks and finds escape clauses to all his vows. Well most anyway.

God recognized the hardness of man's heart (So he established divorce and gave rules for that too. Rules that man also violates because of the hardness of man's heart(s)

Seems to me even God has had change(s) of heart, to the extent of overriding his own vows; perhaps as a mercy or recanting of a punishment. He also has stepped up the conditions that man is to comply with as was done at the sermon on the mount.  "You have heard it said... , but I say... (from the sermon on the mount by Jesus).

[BornAgain490]

10 hours ago, In the Clouds said:

God made covenants.  He never broke any.  He has always been faithful and stood by His promises.   Sometimes He grows us with instructions and new understandings.  We can be pretty feeble and "human."  So why do we make vows and sometimes fail?

No doubt: our word should be our bond; we should never break it.  However, we fail because we're fallen, and fallen people have been making and breaking vows for a long, long time. 

Before I was saved, I used to wonder at all the people filing for bankruptcy.  I can still see the long line of people (mostly lawyers) at bankruptcy court just before the law changed, which change made it a bit more difficult to succeed at bankruptcy.  They all signed their names to an agreement/contract where A agrees to lend money to B, and B agrees to repay A with interest. Were they just frauds, or deliberate thieves enjoying a free ride off the expense of the lender?  Or were they mentally or physically sick, was their sickness a but/for condition that justified the reason for their inability to repay?

After I was saved, I finally saw just how fallen, depraved, and broken man is as the result of sin.  I saw more acutely the want of man, the lust of the heart, eyes, and pride of life. It was clear there was a sickness in these people, in a people: a sickness called sin. 

My parents, born 1926 and 1927, taught us all to work hard for the one who hired you, give him and hour and a half worth of work for every hour and you'll never need to find another job, buy what you need, want what you have, and you'll never go hungry or shoeless or homeless. 

Thanks dad, thanks mom. ❤️

 

 

[missmuffet]

15 hours ago, In the Clouds said:

God made covenants.  He never broke any.  He has always been faithful and stood by His promises.   Sometimes He grows us with instructions and new understandings.  We can be pretty feeble and "human."  So why do we make vows and sometimes fail?

But He is God and we are sinful humans. People don't understand the true meaning

of a vow and take it lightly. They don't understand the seriousness of breaking a vow

which is a sin. Breaking a vow goes against keeping your word.