Theological Commentary: Click Here
It is so
easy to get wrapped up in the man vs. woman debate when reading this
passage. Now that I’ve mentioned it, I
also want to avoid it. If you want to
hear my thoughts on that dynamic, click on the theological commentary link
above.
Instead, I
want to focus on what I consider to be the more important theme in this
passage. Ultimately, this passage is
about people learning to keep their word.
This chapter teaches us that when we make a promise, we need to try our
very best to make that promise come to fruition. After all, we serve a God who kept His
promises – even sending His own Son to die so that His promises would be
kept. God keeps His promises, it shouldn’t
surprise us that He wants us to keep ours, too.
Furthermore,
if we are going to keep our promises, then we really need to think before we
speak. When we open up our mouths, the
thought should have crosses our mind and we should approve of it. After all, how can we be expected to keep our
every word if we haven’t taken the time to process and think through our words?
Truthfully,
I think this is a chapter that can really bring benefit to our modern culture
if we don’t allow ourselves to get hung up in a debate about the sexes. We live in a culture that is about immediate gratification. We live in a culture where much of our
contact with other people is done via quick texts, even quicker snapchats, and
impersonal Facebook posts. Our culture
is becoming a culture where there is no personal consequence for the words that
come out of our mouth. I believe the
results of such a culture are coming more and more to bear. We can learn much from the underlying premise
of this chapter indeed.
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