As I grew up the old-timers would say, "It's better you never make a vow to God than to make one and break it."

How casually we make vows to God and don't keep them. Marriage vows and vows of repentance are made and there are promises to God. Many times we are like the little boy who cried wolf, but the Bible says, "God is not mocked; for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap."

Broken vows and promises I believe break the heart of God. It makes Him sad and angry as it was in the days of Noah; marrying and given in marriage; eating, drinking and being merry.

I've never been one to make new year's resolutions, and I don't believe very many people keep them. In a drunken stupor they place their head where they normally place something else and they cry and pray and promise God many things.

"Lord, if you'll just help me now, I promise I'll never do it again." Like the man falling off a cliff, as he was falling he made lots of vows and promises to God. There was a large root hanging out the side of the mountain; he grabbed it, pulled on it awhile, looked up and said, "That's okay, God! Forget what I said. This root has got me now."

How true that is about how we treat God, but He keeps a record more perfect than man could ever dream of and I suppose there's trillions and trillions of broken vows and promises recorded in Heaven.

I wonder how many of mine are there!