Think About It

          Are we guilty of overpromising and underdelivering?  It is easy to see why people lack trust – we have been let down too many times.  It doesn’t take much effort to promise the moon, but it can become difficult to deliver on our claims.  It is much more popular to be full of promises than effort.           I would like to think that this problem originated in our society, but the truth of the matter is that it has been around for a long, long time.  During Jesus’ day He chided His contemporaries’ unreliability by calling them out for making false vows and demanding, “ But let your statement be, ‘Yes, yes’ or ‘No, no’; anything beyond these is of evil.” (Matthew 5:37).            So how can we be people of our word?  Here are a few thoughts: 1.  Carefully think about what we are about to promise .  Not only can we deliver, but do we want to do what we are promising?  If we don’t want to do it in the first place, there is no need to make a promise we don’t want to keep.