Having just saved Han’s life, Luke enters the coordinates to the Dagobah system and lets his friends know he will meet them back at the fleet.
He and R2D2 are returning to Dagobah to finish his Jedi training because, as Luke tells R2, he has “a promise to keep, to an old friend.”
In Our World
Being a person of your word is unusual today.
We need to look no further than to our politicians. Many people stopped trusting political promises because of so many of politicians have broken their promises.
What About Us And Our Word?
Can people trust us to do what we say? Do we keep our promises to do things at work? At home? With our kids?
Do we deliver on our promises or do we forget and when reminded, try to make excuses?
Jesus was very blunt in Matthew 5:37 when He says “Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.”
He is calling us to be people of our word and to have integrity. He desires for us to be like Him.
We see this in Romans 8:29a, 1 John 2:6, and Ephesians 5:1.
- “For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son”
- “whoever says he abides in Him [Jesus] ought to walk in the same way in which He walked.”
- “Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children”
What would it mean in our lives if we became people of our word?
If we become people of our word, would we stand out?
When people are shocked when we live up to our word and commitments, they might ask us why.
That opens the door to share your reason: your faith in God and your desire to become like Christ.
How will we be a person of our word today?
