{"id":229,"date":"2015-01-05T12:47:32","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=229"},"modified":"2015-01-06T10:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T16:06:52","slug":"jesus-wasnt-big-on-resolutions-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=229","title":{"rendered":"Jesus wasn\u2019t big on resolutions \u2026 at all."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cI say to you, do not swear at all.\u201d (Matthew 5:33-37).<\/em><br \/>\nThe Bible is full of warnings about vows and expectations on ourselves or others. <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/newyear_resolutions250.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-231\" src=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/newyear_resolutions250.jpg\" alt=\"New Year Resolutions\" width=\"250\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a>The reason? Instead of asking God to meet our needs, a vow (or a New Year\u2019s resolution) puts us in the position of swearing before God that we\u2019re going to accomplish something on our own.<br \/>\nBesides, it&#8217;s presumptuous. Consider\u00a0James 4:13-15 &#8211; &#8220;Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:\u00a0<em>Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow<\/em>. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.\u00a0For that ye ought to say, If the Lord <em>will<\/em>, we shall live, and do this, or that.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe Jewish ceremony of Kol Nidrei on Yom Kippur declared all our vows as annulled and \u201cmade void.\u201d And for those who \u201cplace no confidence in man,\u201d the Kol Nidrei should apply\u00a0every day.<br \/>\nThankfully, God provides another way: \u00a0\u201cBe careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God\u201d (Phil. 4:6).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI say to you, do not swear at all.\u201d (Matthew 5:33-37). The Bible is full of warnings about vows and expectations on ourselves or others. The reason? Instead of asking God to meet our needs, a vow (or a New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/?p=229\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communitynews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communityoncolumbia.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}