"PAY WHAT YOU VOW!!"

Ecclesiastes 5:3-5                 (NASB)

"3 For the dream comes through much effort and the voice of a fool through many words. 

4 When you make a vow to God, do not be late in paying it; for He takes no delight in fools. "PAY WHAT YOU VOW"! 

5 It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay."

The Congress of the United States of America consists of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.  The House has members that are "Representatives" of the people they are elected to SERVE.  "Representatives" are NOT elected to serve a caucus or political party.  "Representatives" are elected to serve constituents of the district they are elected from.

The oath each "Representative" has to repeat each time they are re-elected to the House of "Representatives" is listed below:  “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.”

Yesterday was the appointed day that Congress was "sworn in" for this term.  As you can see, our elected officials swear to perform their prescribed duties "So help me God"!  One has to wonder how seriously the aforementioned elected officials take their oath, especially the portion "So help me God"?  The writer of Ecclesiastes (thought by many to be King Solomon, the wisest man to ever live) wrote in chapter 5 verse 4 that "HE (GOD) takes no delight in fools.  PAY WHAT YOU VOW"!

The United States of America was founded upon a belief that The Almighty had his hand upon this nation. The founders witnessed too many instances of The Almighty's providence in our beginnings.  When the United States of America began to believe that this nation had accomplished superiority on its own (without GOD's intervention), we began our decline!  

Perhaps our elected "Representatives" would benefit from studying the "oath" they take?  Perhaps the church would benefit from studying who we claim to be when we say we are "Christians"?  Everyone should understand that our very existence is a gift from GOD, and we are blessed to even have our breath!  We will be expected to "PAY WHAT YOU VOW", especially the OATHS we vow to HIM!!!