A Promise with Praise

A Promise with Praise

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.

Nehemiah 5:13

😱Curses are always frightening!

😨While reading the “blessings and curses” in Deuteronomy, my heart freezes when I go through the curses part!

💭 We might feel that they were forced into fulfilling this promise with the threat of a curse !

                 But, NO! 

❌That was not the case!

📯 They said AMEN!
📯 They praised the Lord!
🥰 They gave their promise with a cheerful heart! 

🙏🏻 David’s promise and praise 📯

📯 Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praises unto thee.

Psalms 56:12 📯

🙏🏻David says that the vows/promises he made to God were upon him.
📯He then goes on to say that he will give praises to God for them! 

“ Thy vows are upon me, O God!-not upon me as a burden ⛰ which I am loaded with, but as a badge 🏅 which I glory in ”

-Matthew Henry

📯 Application 📯

🙏🏻 We make a lot of promises.

🔥To God
👩To ourselves
👨🏻To our spouse
👫To our children
👵🏻To people who come to us for help

🙏🏻Sometimes, we give them promises out of pressure and later regret it. 😕

But our Lord does not want us to walk with this attitude.

🙂 He wants us to make a promise / vow with a cheerful heart and fulfill them with the same cheer!

🏅 Let us consider the vows as badges of glory and not as a burden⛰

-Key ideas taken from Matthew Henry Commentary