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A Promise Is A Promise

As a little girl, one of my favorite things to do was not playing with dolls or barbies, although I did this quite often. And it wasn't  playing dress up or jumping rope, although I did this quite often as well. My favorite thing to do as a little girl was sucking my thumb. Yes, folks I was a thumb sucker, LOL I can remember how bewildered my mother was trying to break me of this habit.  She would often say, “You are going to get buck teeth”.  Once she rubbed hot sauce on my thumb. I just wiped it off and kept on sucking.   Knowing my mother she probably used more water than sauce. She did confess years later that it was mostly water. We laugh about it to this day. Eventually, my mother grew weary of trying to rid me of this habit. She hoped that I would grow out of it on my own as she put it.  Not even the teasing from siblings and cousins could deter me from sucking my thumb.


The day did come when I wanted to stop sucking my thumb, but I couldn’t do it.  It had become such a part of me and it gave me comfort.  I remember attending church
one Sunday morning and hearing the minister say, “If you make a promise to God you can’t take it back”.  I was about seven years old at the time and the minister's words touched my heart. Later that night I knelt beside my bed to pray.  I repeated to God what the minister had said and I made a promise to God to stop sucking my thumb. Well, friends, I want you to know that I never sucked my thumb again.  At first, no one noticed except my mother. She said to me, “You don’t suck your thumb”?  This was my response, “I made a promise to God and I can’t take it back”.


There would be other promises made to God over the years.  Promises that were painful, even costly. But I recognized when negative things happen in my life, it pushed me to the promise.  Meaning, the promise reminded me of the promise and it kept me from walking away from God when things got rough.  It is a relationship of I promised God and God promised me and we are in this thing together.  How awesome is this? I can't imagine my life without the Lord.

I pray today for the Lord to reveal Himself to you and your household - Amen!



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