Proverbs 6, Dangerous Promise,

 

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Proverbs 6

   I was about to start typing up my study of ‘Man Of Sorrow’ when God stopped me, and told my to look deeper within Proverbs 6 that I was reading. Once again God has called me to read proverbs. You read according to the day of the month, so if it’s say the 6^th you read chp 6, or 21^st you read chp 21 and so on.

   I’m not going to up load the chapter, so you will have to open your bibles, please. There will be 4 parts to this...

1 Dangerous Promise 2 The Folly of Indolence

3 The Wicked Man 4 Beware of Adultery

1. Dangerous Promise

   When you have a close relationship with friends or family you able to talk about anything, ask anything. Such as asking for money, or being a ‘witness’ to a loan.

V2 “..You are snared by the words of your mouth ..”

...you suddenly find yourself say ..”yeah sure, I’ll cover your loan if you can’t repay” There’s another agreement called an … Gentleman's agreement … this is where by 2 consenting adult will shake hands upon an agreement. This form, whilst old, is not legally binding, it is regarded as a ‘signed contract’ …

V1 “..you have shaken hands in pledge..”

   Both of the above are fine if entered into when  sober, but so many contracts are not, and so become a bone of contention. Thus have been fought over in a Court and lost, because the Court has deemed ‘both’ agreements/contracts legally binding.

   All that would be left for you to do is loose yourself from your contract/agreement, if you can, without destroying your friendship. It may well be all you can do is to make sure that the agreement/contract is not broken.

   A couple of key words come out of this are .. Trust ~ Surety ~ Snared ~ Contract ~ agreement ~ Friendship. So always pause and think before you speak to agree to anything.