“Promise?” My girlfriend, later my wife, asked.
“Yes, I promise.”
“Pinky promise?”
“Pinky promise?”
I had never heard of such a thing. She
explained that two people would lock pinkies to seal the promise. Sounded
pretty silly to me. I can’t remember if I did it or not. I’m sure I kept my
promise regardless. I couldn’t see how locking pinkies gave a promise more
credibility.
Shaking hands, swearing on mother’s grave, swearing to tell
the truth in court and such really don’t either. Buying a house has so much
paperwork even to the point of one document requiring my signature saying that
I really am me. At least my Mom didn’t have to sign it, too.
James is telling Christians that they simply need to keep
their word in this verse. Wow, wouldn’t keeping one’s word change our world?
Lawyers would go out of business. Police would be able to keep up with crime.
Christians can’t change the world by keeping their word, but
it does give our witness credibility that a pinky promise doesn’t. Our witness
might help someone come to trust Christ as Savior. Thus, keeping our word might
change someone’s world!
“But above all things,
my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any
other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into
condemnation.” James 5:12.
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