Making Vows

Greetings,[/font]

I have a question regarding making oaths/vows to God--[/font]

I know that Scripture says that any vow you make to God you must keep.[/font]
But can I back down from an oath that I made to Him? Would God keep me bound to it even if I wanted to cancel it?[/font]


I have this fear that I made vows to God that if I do this or this happens, then God can remove my salvation.[/font]

I feel that once the vow is made that I can't cancel it. It feels that there’s no way out. I tell God that I didn't mean it. I tell Him to cancel it. But I feel that He would only reply by saying, "You're the one who made it. So you're the one who damned yourself, not Me."[/font]

Even posting this very message makes me fear that I made a vow of damnation.[/font]

I know Jesus urged that you should never make vows. But nearly all the time, I just can't help it. They just come by themselves. I feel doomed. I mean, sometimes I can’t even do the simplest things anymore.[/font]

Hermit[/font]

Well, thanks for the replies.

But just today, I had a problem with a vow (in a sense at least).

Basically, what happened is this--I had an OCD moment about a task that I had to eventually do for work. In order to avoid it, I made a "vow" (sorta) that I won't bring up this task in a meeting I had later that day, unless someone else brought it up to me. If I broke that vow it was implied that God would damn me to hell.

Well, the meeting came and when I asked that if I had anything else to add, I passed it along. But then, one of my co-worker brought up something to me and it sounded like he was referring to the task. I then made the assumption that it was and talked about that task.

But later on, a few minutes after the meeting, he then told me that, that wasn't what he was talking about.

I feel afraid that I just damned myself to hell. I told God that I didn't mean that vow and that I recant it. I know that technically I didn't really "violate" per se, but the feeling of fear is real.

I don't want to lose my salvation. I told God that. I asked God to relinguish me from this vow.

But I'm still fearful.