{"id":5421,"date":"2010-12-29T08:49:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2011-05-03T16:56:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T16:56:48","slug":"making-promises-to-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesusneedsnewpr\/2010\/12\/making-promises-to-god.html","title":{"rendered":"Making promises to God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IMG_1846.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesusneedsnewpr.net\/2010\/12\/IMG_1846-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a>I was home for a few days over the Christmas holiday. While searching through dusty boxes of old memories amid report cards, old worn out Bibles, and school pictures I found this index card.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This card represents just one of the many promises I made to God as a child. As a church, we were constantly telling God what we promised we would do or wouldn&#8217;t do. Pastor Nolan constantly asked us to make him promises. And this one obviously made when I was very young.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I was almost six when I made this promise to God. Obeying parents was a very popular promise to make as a kid. We didn&#8217;t steal. We told fibs but promising to not lie was sort of easy. And we hadn&#8217;t yet become old enough to commit adultery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">And since we really wanted our parents to like us&#8230; and for our parents to be liked by others in our church (parents with obedient children were treated better than those with disobedient parents)&#8230; we were always promising to be obedient to our parents&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Plus, if we did, we&#8217;d live long upon this land!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For some reason, old age was a big selling point for Baptist children.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong>Do you make promises to God? <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was home for a few days over the Christmas holiday. While searching through dusty boxes of old memories amid report cards, old worn out Bibles, and school pictures I found this index card. This card represents just one of the many promises I made to God as a child. 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