Rashly

Proverbs 20:25-27 – It is a trap to dedicate something rashly and only later to consider one’s vows. A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them. The human spirit is the lamp of the Lord that sheds light on one’s inmost being.

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.

Judges 11:35 – When he saw her, he tore his clothes and cried, “Oh no, my daughter! You have brought me down and I am devastated. I have made a vow to the Lord that I cannot break.”

Psalm 119:105 – Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.

Proverbs 27:19 – As water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart.

Application:

• ·         In Scripture the fool is not one who cannot learn but one who refuses to learn.
• ·         All Jephthah’s efforts to assure for himself a position of power in Israel by manipulating God backfired. God will not be used!
• ·         “Lamp…light”, apart from which I could only grope about in the darkness.
• ·         The condition of one’s heart indicates one’s true character.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV