Foolish promises

[Docbrown1985]

Hello,

I made a promise to God a while back I regret making and I don’t really know why I made it. But I promised god I would do something I don’t really want to do…

Are all promises made to god binding? I’ve seen people word it like that. And what is the definition of that? If you don’t complete a promise/vow, you die in sin and go to hell?

 

[Sabertooth]

Are all promises made to god binding?

It is binding if you know that it is something He wanted you to do in the first place.

It is not binding if

1. it isn't something that He even wanted you to do, or
2. it was made compulsively (like with OCD).

Either way, just repent and re-align with whatever He wants you to do.

 

[com7fy8]

"I don't want to" isn't a reason.

God is more and better than we are; so God can want more than anything we are capable of promising to Him. And He is able to have us succeed in doing all the good He desires to do with us. So, I personally tend not to make promises of anything I am capable of thinking of doing, because He is able to grow and mature me to do better than any promise I can make, now.

Even moments from now, God is able to have us doing better than what we now might be thinking of doing. So, I think it is not wise to boast what we will do in the future. But become able to simply submit to God, so He is the One guiding us, creating what we do . . . with Him, in sharing with Him and with one another.

This is another thing: God wants us to share with Him and one another as His family. So, He does not want me to live in isolation with myself and how I can make promises by myself and only about what I am capable of doing, but He wants us to do things with one another in His love, sharing in discovering what He has us doing as one in Jesus.

Have you read the Bible, and are you feeding on all the New Testament says, about how God wants us to share as family and do things in unity with one another? There are scriptures about how to relate with God and each other, how we are called to submit to God in His peace > including Colossians 3:15 > in sharing with one another > including Ephesians 4:1-3 and Ephesians 4:31-5:2. And all God commands in the New Testament is essentially a promise of what He will do with us; because God's word is guaranteed to do all which God means by His word > Isaiah 55:11 > God in us will do what He means by His commands; so this is why I say every commandment of God has His meaning, which He is sure to succeed in doing in and through every one of us who is His child.

So, if we isolate ourselves with our own ability and our own promise making, this is not wise, considering all which is possible with God.

So we need, then, to be concerned about all that God promises, including which He promises to do with us while . . . if . . . we obey Him.

 

[Tolworth John]

Hello,

I made a promise to God a while back I regret making and I don’t really know why I made it. But I promised god I would do something I don’t really want to do…

Are all promises made to god binding? I’ve seen people word it like that. And what is the definition of that? If you don’t complete a promise/vow, you die in sin and go to hell?

We cannot make bargins with God Any promise I'll do this if you do that is automaticly invalid.

if you promised not to sin, God knows you will 1000% breack that promise, so follow 1 John 1:9 and stop makeing promises to God.

 

[BobRyan]

Hello,

I made a promise to God a while back I regret making and I don’t really know why I made it. But I promised god I would do something I don’t really want to do…

Are all promises made to god binding? I’ve seen people word it like that. And what is the definition of that? If you don’t complete a promise/vow, you die in sin and go to hell?

If you make a stupid promise to God like "I will jump off a bridge tomorrow in your name" - you should repent of it and ask God to protect your mind from dark thoughts and clouded confused reasoning.

But if you make a promise like "I will give food to a poor family in my neighborhood" - you should do it.

 

[timf]

Jas 5:12 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.

I think one of the reasons were are discouraged from making promises is because we don't have the power to do so. God understands our limitations.

 

[FutureAndAHope]

Hello,

I made a promise to God a while back I regret making and I don’t really know why I made it. But I promised god I would do something I don’t really want to do…

Are all promises made to god binding? I’ve seen people word it like that. And what is the definition of that? If you don’t complete a promise/vow, you die in sin and go to hell?

Jesus said:

Mat 5:37 But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.

Vows are not what God wants for us, vows are often pressured on us by the devil himself. Your vow definitely sounds like something that was pressured upon you. Although it is not good to break promises, I would say in this case you should ignore the vow, ask God to forgive you for making it, and move on.