It is dishonest to break your agreements. Often, people make promises regarding the future with implicit conditions that they don’t bother doubting because they believe them so sure. You do not know the future.1 If you make an agreement that is based on your expectations of the future, you should state what those conditions are. If you can’t or won’t specify those conditions, you should not make the agreement.2
Footnotes
- 1. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. (Matthew 6:34) ↩
- 2. The Lord and James both taught this lesson, though the distance in culture and language prevents most from recognizing it: “Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil." (Matthew 5:36-37) “But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.” (James 5:12) ↩