Let Your Yea Be Yea

Bible Reading:  Matthew 5:33-48

Key Verse: Verse 37- “But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil."

Key Words: let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay

In Jesus’ day, like today, people think very little of keeping their word.  In fact, in our text the people would even take an oath and swear by heaven, or by earth, or by Jerusalem that they would fulfill their vows or promises; but, of course, they didn’t.  I marvel at how parents do this with their children.  They make promises that they never keep.

The following is taken from a group of ten year-olds at Brookside Community School in Brookside, New Jersey.  Here is what ten year-olds said about grown-ups.

1. Grown-ups make promises, then forget them or never carry them out.
2. Grown-ups make us do what they don’t do, like “clean up your room.”
3. Grown-ups are not good listeners.  They have their minds made up even before they let you talk.
4. When a grown-up makes a mistake, they won’t admit it.
5. Grown-ups interrupt children all the time; but if we interrupt them, we are rude.
6. Grown-ups make threats that they don’t carry out, like “if you do this again, I’ll punish you.”
7. And last of all, grown-ups tell you how important you are, then do other things rather than spend time with you.

While children should respect authority, authority should also be respectable.

 

                                                                                                                Dr. Mike Rouse

What to do:

✞While we, as adults, detest being corrected, I would advise you to read and heed.  Children spell love T-I-M-E and L-I-S-T-E-N-I-N-G.