For many of you will surely be familiar with the phrase "The word is a document", this is how our parents and grandparents expressed themselves in relation to the commitment made when a deal was made that involved only the agreement of lips, it was common to hear that the word of a man was respected, at least in the environment where I grew up.
Time has passed and a man's word has lost its value, people no longer give so much importance to commitment and give their word to get out of some kind of situation, however, there is no real commitment in what they express.
We could say that the word has become an empty and unimportant document, that the word of someone today is not a guarantee of anything, and people are not willing to honor their commitment, at least there is a large number of people who do this.
The word of God, the bible is the greatest moral reference that the human being has ever known and in it we find advice related to the word or more specifically with the promises that we can pronounce through the word.
Matthew 5:37 "But let your speech be, 'Yes, yes' or 'No, no'; and what is more, it is from evil."
In this passage Jesus advises the disciples not to make so many commitments of words, to avoid all kinds of oaths but that word they gave had to be a document, they were committed to honor their words.
Ecclesiastes 5:5 "It is better for you not to make vows, than to make vows and not keep them."
Ecclesiastes 5:6 "Let not your mouth make you sin, and do not say before the messenger of God that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?"
We must be able to fulfill all that we promise, it is our commitment to honor the word with which we bind ourselves, otherwise all that we speak becomes an empty document.
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