I’m just sounding off here, but I can’t help myself. I
think about many things, about what we have, what we don’t have,
how we can get what we don’t have, and then I wonder, do we really
need what we don’t have? Then, all of a sudden, it comes to
me…. seems like the only thing we have is the Lord and our
word. Now, I know that doesn’t mean a lot to people anymore,
but it still means a lot to me. I find myself restless and
unable to find rest when I have given my word and I have to find a
way to fulfill that which I have promised, if you will. I
know there are circumstances and events that can cause us to fail
at our task, but there are also just times when people make
promises, say things, and just plain and simply never had the
intentions of doing it in the first place. I have always felt
inside that a person is only as good as their word and for some
reasoning unknown to me, I cannot shake that idea which is a major
basis for my life. The Bible says that it is better to not
even make a promise than to make one and break it. The fact
is, people like me, we take folks’ word when they say something,
maybe it’s because we see everyone as having the same belief as we
do. We trust that they will do what they say and we even go
so far as to plan our days, events, or whatever, around their
word. I find that to be a “big deal” in this life. We
should be able to depend on each other, know that when someone says
something, that they have every intention to see it through.
Maybe I’m living in another time or on another planet, but I still
believe that surely there are some people left in this world who
want to do the right thing and who want to keep the only thing they
have left, their word.
