Say Only What You Mean and Nothing Else

Verses:  Matthew 5:33-37

My thoughts about the verses:

Let your yes be yes and your no be no.  We all know hard this is.  We want so much to please people that we agree things that we really do not want to do because of peer pressure.  We also say no to things out of peer pressure.  We do things that are against God because of peer pressure.  At other times we do not do what God calls us to do because of the same peer pressure.

Let us look at this closely.  How can we succumb to peer pressure when we have God living in our heart.  Do we not sin every day?  It is because of our own desires to fit in and desire to be within the in crowd that we do things that we know we shouldn’t do. 

Yet, this goes much deeper.  We need to live a life in which people accept our word.  We need to show people that we will not just go along with the crowd.  We have to stand up and say this is not right.  We have to stand up and say this is what we should do.  There is not one person on Earth that we should follow.  We need to put our trust solely on God.

When people see that you are doing what God has called you to do they will start believing you.  See isn’t that what an oath is?  I often think of court cases.  We have to swear that we will say the truth and nothing else.  The Judges do not know you but they feel if you are willing to believe that if you promise to say something in truth that you will.

We need to be the kind of people that do not have to say an oath for people to believe us.  We need to be the kind of person that when people see us they agree that we are living a life that reflects the truth in all that we do.  When we say that we are against something people shouldn’t suspect that we will do the same thing in private.  We also need to be able to say yes and begrudging doing something that we feel is wrong.

People watch us each and every day.  When they look at us we should desire to see us as truthful people.  If they catch us doing things that we say we are against they will start distrusting us.  If they catch us talking bad about something that we said yes to we start distrusting us.

We need to make sure that our life proves what we believe inside.  Let your yes be yes and your no be no.  Soon you will find that people will believe you and trust you.  You can become an example of someone that is trustworthy.  Pray daily that you will not fall into peer pressure.  Instead pray that God will give you the ability to say yes to things that we believe in and no to things we do not believe in.

Prayer:

Dear God we praise you for your trust.  We thank you for blessing us each and every day.  Help us be the people that you want us to be.  Help us live a life that builds trust with others.  Help us stand up to peer pressure.  Help us show to others that our yes is a yes and our no is a no.  In the name of the Almighty we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Do you live the life in which people trust you?  Do you fall into peer pressure and later on feel guilty for what you have or haven’t done?  Are you asking God for wisdom?  Are you living a life in which all people will know that your yes is a yes and your no is a no?