Your thoughts please...?

Question

This weeks lesson for teens will be on "Promise". Please tell me what a promise means to you. Also add any cool illustrations or exercises about promise that you might have. Thanks

Answer 1

We can fail at living up to our promises. It's because we are fallible. We sin, fall short, lie, and certain things are out of our control which may include things that get in the way.

I would therefore be careful as to what I promised. And I also would be careful how I worded a promise.

In contrast, God always lives up to His promises. He can be trusted to fulfill every promise that He makes.
2 Corinthians 1:20
For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.

We are Christian because we trust what God says, and what He does. He sent His Son, and we trust that whosoever believes in Him shall not be condemned.

We continue through life trusting in God's promises, that's called the life of faith. As the Psalm says:
7 They go from strength to strength,
till each appears before God in Zion.
(Psalm 84)

We are pilgrims on a journey, citizens of a heavenly kingdom. We hold on to nothing down here too tightly, the promises of God's blessings are before us.

Answer 2

A promise is a guarantee.
It is something given in advance that another might rely on it and can chalk it down as a certainty rather than a variable.
It is a gift in homage... given to another. To break it is rather to steal what is theirs and deny them when they need it most.

It is something to only be given if you are 100% guaranteed to keep it.... as to break a promise is to do one's own credability and honour a mortal injury. He who breaks a promise, by proxy, is as likely to kill you in your sleep as not.


The only way out of a promise made is for it to be rescinded by they to whom it was made originally... and even then such should be avoided where possible.