The word that really IS everything, is the word that God speaks. Everything else can either be in accord with it, or attempt vainly to fight it.
People can break promises. People will break promises. The ability to keep promises depends on circumstance that we cannot completely understand or control.
A promise not kept was not of God. It was a sin. It is not the unforgivable sin, which is to refuse the promise of God unto salvation until it is too late.
Drawing nearer to God will have the side effect of better reliability.
As the bible itself says, the man who said “I will not go” and then goes, is better than the man who said “I will go” and then does not go.
Agreed. I’ve always tried HARD to understand that my word on an issue is VERY doable.
But you’re right. Never 100 percent.