Oaths

In this culture of quick and shallow promises I am curious about the world where a promise is unbreakable.

Oath - a declaration or promise invoking a power or authority higher then the person who says it to make it come to pass.   A covenant is the performance or outworking of an oath.

Heb 6:13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, since he had no one greater by whom to swear, he swore by himself,
14 saying, “Surely I will bless you and multiply you.”
15 And thus Abraham, having patiently waited, obtained the promise.
16 For people swear by something greater than themselves, and in all their disputes an oath is final for confirmation.
17 So when God desired to show more convincingly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeable character of his purpose, he guaranteed it with an oath,
18 so that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain,
20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

Oaths create power connections to the spiritual realms.  Not to be done or taken lightly.

God has declared promises for us.  And I can rely on this hope that is connected to the very presence of God.

PJ