TAKING AN OATH

 

TAKING AN OATH

Public Officials who win the elections would usually take their oath of office before assuming  their positions and perform their functions. The oath taking ceremony is often pompous if not elaborate with all the important  and popular figures in attendance. Essentially this is no idle ceremony because once they assume a position of authority and responsibility, they take an oath and swear  to discharge their powers and duties faithfully. They proclaim that they will do that which they had sworn to do.

In the life of the Hebrew nation, the Lord God Jehovah had “sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm” that He will do what He had promised to do for His people.

“The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored.”

-Isaiah 62:8

Ordinary mortals like our politicians would recite their oath placing their hands in the Bible, symbolic of the Higher Authority of God before whom they swear their oath. In the passage in Isaiah, Jehovah God had sworn by Himself and by His Power for He could swear to no one greater than Him. God the Almighty, swore that He will not allow His people to be overcome by their enemies. Never again will the armies of invaders capture, take and loot the produce of their land. God’s people will enjoy peace and plenty for God will secure them. They will enjoy uninterrupted peace and live on the abundant fruit of the land. This God had sworn to do.

Government leaders have come and gone, but never fully and completely or even hardly fulfilling their oath.  Their promises remain unfulfilled.   

God’s promises to His people have proven true. In Joshua 21:43-45, …”Not a single one of all the good  promises the Lord had given to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; everything He had spoken came true.”