Divine Reliability
Keeping your word is how you honor God in a broken world.
Someone flaked on me this morning. Said he'd get coffee before I flew out. Complete no-show.
This guy had just told me the night before that he was turning a new leaf, getting his life together. Felt awful about missing his kid's childhood. Twenty-one years of regret weighing on him.
Then he pulls this.
I used to get furious at people like this. Spend energy trying to fix them, manage their lives, convince them they were screwing up. All that patronizing anger came from thinking I knew better than they did.
Jesus said it clearly: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:3)
I've stopped doing that. I won't be upset for people who aren't even upset at themselves.
But I'm still frustrated. Not at him—at myself. For believing in someone who hadn't proven they deserved that belief.
Here's what I'm learning: we live in the most unaccountable time in human history. People break their word like it's nothing. Wonder why their software sucks, why they hate their jobs, why nothing works anymore.
It's because nobody takes responsibility for their actions.
God wants me to be different. Divinely reliable.
That means I don't make promises I can't keep. I don't say yes to things I'm lukewarm about. I drastically reduce what I commit to so I can be absolutely faithful to what remains.
When I say I'll be there, I show up. When I give my word, it's bond. Not because I'm trying to impress people, but because reliability is how I honor God with my life.
Your word is your covenant with heaven. Every time you keep it, you're reflecting God's faithfulness. Every time you break it, you're bearing His name in vain.
The men I want to work with understand this. They don't overcommit out of good intentions. They know that saying yes to something you can't deliver is worse than saying no from the start.
I'm reducing the number of people I interact with. Cutting back on everything that doesn't serve my highest calling or my clients' best outcomes.
I won't make friends carelessly anymore. Every relationship opens the door to promises—made and potentially broken. I won't start new side projects out of boredom or because I don't want to commit to the hard work in front of me.
Quality over quantity. Depth over breadth. Sacred reliability over scattered promises.
This isn't just about productivity. It's about discipleship. God keeps His promises. His people should too.
In a world full of flakes, be the person who shows up. In a culture of broken commitments, let your yes be yes and your no be no.
Scripture is clear: "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." (Numbers 30:2)
Divine reliability isn't just keeping your calendar. It's keeping covenant with the One who never breaks His word.
Start today. Honor God by honoring your commitments.
The world is desperate for people they can count on.