Broken Promise

I got this essay from a friend and I felt I had to pass it on. Bob

Broken Promise

When you make a promise to God, it should be kept. Even if you are a sinner, if you make a promise to God, it should be kept.

Allow me to give you a couple of examples and what the end result was.

Two different people, we’ll call one John and the other, Jim.

John was a drunk who stayed drunk all the time. Jim was on drugs and stayed high all the time. They both had one thing in common: calling out for help. John gets so drunk that he stays in the bathroom hugging the great white throne, yelling, “help me Lord get through this. I promise I won’t do it again.“

Jim gets so high that it makes him sick. He too yells out, “help me Lord, get me through this. I promise I won’t do this again.” They both lied, they keep doing it again and again and again.

John gets in a bad car wreck, he yells out, “help Lord, I promise I won’t do this again.” Again the Lord helps him. Jim is put in the hospital for drug overdose. He managed to yell out, “help me Lord I promise I won’t do this again.” They both lied again.

The day finally came. John was drunk, wrecked his car and was knocked unconscious and couldn’t call for help. Jim overdosed, he passed out and couldn’t call for help. Their lives were over.

All of a sudden they wake up. Both of them are taking a train ride. They ask the conductor where they were going. The conductor told them that this train stops in Hell. The both scream out, “Lord help me.” Sorry, not this time, because the Lord isn’t there.

When they got off from the train, they heard this voice laughing at them. When they turned around, what do they see? Not the Lord; remember, he is not there.

But this voice is still laughing at them. All of a sudden it stops laughing and said, “you have broken your promise, Welcome to Hell. You now belong to me.”

You just heard what happened to John and Jim. Now it’s time to check your hearts. Have you made a promise to God that you haven’t kept? Have you made a promise to one of God’s children that you haven’t kept? Because making a promise to one of God’s children is the same as making a promise to God. You need to make good of it.

You decide which voice you want to hear: God saying,”Well done my good and faithful servant”, or Satan saying “You’ve broken your promise. Welcome to Hell, you now belong to me.”