Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand. James5.8 ESV
My wife accuses me of being wishy-washy, especially when it comes to making dinner plans. It is true that I have a hard time choosing when there are so many options to choose from. We might start out for Montgomery to eat Japanese and go to a movie but end up eating Italian and spending the evening at Home Depot. She likes to plan ahead; I like to be spontaneous.
Now there are some things where being wishy-washy just won’t cut it. Keeping our word is one. When we promise someone, be it God or another person that we are going to do something, we should keep our promises or else not make them. But more important than keeping our word is keeping our heart. Keeping our heart can keep us from making stupid promises. Dependability is a good thing unless we happen to be dependably undependable or dependably bad. I think we grow to be dependable in a good sense only when we fix our heart on learning what will please the Lord and refuse anything that we know does not. Once we are convinced that God desires something for us we should decisively pursue it. A person can be dependably good or dependably bad, and both are determined by what we love most in our heart. Depend on it! 7/23/2008 ts
Just me trying to be honest with God.
