Vow Now Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Vow Now Keywords: "voluntary" "vow" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Numbers 30:2* "When a man makes a vow to the Lord or takes an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word but must do everything he said." Questions 1. How did vows and oaths function in the Old Testament?   2. How can you use them to help you resist the temptation of Web porn?   Practical help We live in a voluntary world. No one can force us to do anything we don't want to do — provided no one gets hurt. Sometimes this situation helps believers, such as when we share our faith freely. (Don't try this in Iran.) But sometimes this situation hurts believers, such as when we have to endure waves of porn junk e-mail. The book of Numbers offers us a way to deal with such excessive freedom: a vow. When we vow not to view Web porn, we invoke a reality larger than ourselves; we draw God into our deepest obligations. His calling to faithfulness can make the difference between failure and success. So can a witness. Ask a Christian friend to help you keep your vow. In our voluntary world, this arrangement may be one of the best ways to handle temptation. eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 2003, 2004 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version, © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved. ---