Emphasis Preaching Journal

It was Saturday morning and Nathan really wanted to go fishing with his friends. But he had promised his grandmother that he would spend his morning helping her. If there was one lesson he had learned so far in his 16 years of life, it was that he needed to keep his promises -- not because he was any better than the average kid. He had simply learned through experience that when he broke a promise to do something he would rather do, he almost never enjoyed doing whatever it was -- and he had to face the consequences of a broken promise as well.