Warranty

25 January 2011

Proverbs 3:28-29 Do not say to your neighbour, "Go, and come again, tomorrow I will give it" --when you have it with you. Do not plan evil against your neighbour who dwells trustingly beside you.

It is interesting to note some of the ways people look for business and to try to get a corner of the market by giving guarantees. When a problem occurs there is a sense that the customer is wrong and that the error is with the customer and not with the product. In some cases this is true and others not. So when you have a roof repaired and in the contract there is a five or ten year warranty on workmanship, that if the roof leaks in that period they would repair that roof at their cost. When the roof leaks after four years, they will not come and check until you pay an inspection fee, sometimes the company has changed hands or just closed down and reopened under another name, and they use every excuse to avoid fixing the roof at their cost.

So when you do business with people check their warranties, ask for names and proof that they actually have honoured these warranties, but to just accept a salesman’s word without checking, is like trusting the devil to get you to heaven. In the same way we listen and are sold on what other people say and do, and we trust them with many important things. Yet sometimes we trust the wrong people with the wrong things and then we should not blame them but look to the fault in ourselves.

What real guarantees are there in this life other than taxes and death? We live in this life amongst deceitful people in a deceitful world and so we need to be able to find a place where honesty, trust and a right way of living is found. The only place this starts is with us, when we honour our guarantees, are honest in dealing with others, a live our lives in the right way, we may not change the world, but we can certainly change the people we deal with.

Be encouraged today to honour your guarantees.

  

David

Point to ponder: We change the world by who we are.

Question to consider: Do you honour your guarantees?

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