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IBS 74 - Ecclesiastes 5:4

Ecclesiastes 5:4
“When you make a vow to God, do not delay to fulfill it. He has no pleasure in fools: fulfill your vow.”

How often and how easy it is for me to say to God that I’ll do something. And then, as time goes on, I never actually do it. I second guess it, doubt myself, question God if that is actually what he wanted me to do, and so on. I put up so many excuses so that I don’t have to follow through with what I said I would. When God tells me to do something or go somewhere, I try to put it off. I tell him ok, and then doubt. “What if that’s really not God’s plan for my life. What if I just made that up? But, my plans are so much better.” How sad is that? As if my plans for my life could be better then God’s plans for my life. 
In Proverbs 19:21 it says, “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” I always take my plans to God and say ok Lord, this is what I want for my life. But that is not his purpose. His purpose for my life is completely opposite of what I have thought of for my life. As much as I know that, I get scared of the places that he’ll send me. I’ll think that I can’t do it. And that’s the whole point. I’m not supposed to do it. It’s suppose to be God doing it. I just have to become willing, surrender everything to him, and trust him that he will do as he says. I just have to be faithful and do as I say. I must fulfill my vow. There is no reason for me to be worried, in Ephesians 3:20 it says, “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine according to his power that is at work within us…” His plans for me are so much greater and better then my plans for me. It’s not about me, it’s never been about me. It’s all for the glory of God. And if I truly believe that, then I’ll give him my all and trust his plans and fulfill what I tell him I will. 


“Vital Christian experience is so simple: Christ’s will is your will. You are only Christian to the extent that this is true; you are not one inch further than that in spite of all your professions.” -The Making of a Man of God; Alan Redpath 

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