1 Samuel 14:29-33: in context

In the heat of battle, Saul had bound the army with a rash oath: cursed be anyone who eats food before evening. His son Jonathan, who had not heard the oath, tasted a little honey and was refreshed, and he saw the folly of it plainly. My father has troubled the land, he said; see how my eyes brightened when I tasted a little honey. The soldiers, forbidden to eat, grew faint through the day; and by evening, ravenous, they fell on the plunder and ate meat with the blood, sinning in their exhaustion. Saul's rash vow had burdened the people and driven them to wrong.

The trouble in this account traces back to Saul's rash, ill-considered oath. He bound the army with a severe vow in the heat of the moment, without wisdom, without weighing its effect on the exhausted, fighting soldiers. And the vow did real harm: it left the men faint and weakened when they needed strength; it deprived them needlessly; and finally, driven by the hunger the oath imposed, they fell into sin, eating meat with the blood. Jonathan saw it clearly: my father has troubled the land. An unwise, self-imposed severity, undertaken rashly, burdened the people and even led them into worse wrong. There is a warning here about rash vows and unwise, imposed severities. We can bind ourselves, and sometimes others, with rash commitments and severe rules undertaken in the heat of a moment, without weighing their wisdom or their effect. A hasty vow, a harsh rule imposed on ourselves or those under us, an unwise severity adopted without counting the cost, can burden needlessly, weaken rather than strengthen, and even, as with Saul's army, drive to worse wrong. Do not be rash with your mouth, the Preacher warns, nor hasty to utter anything before God. Rash vows and imposed severities often do more harm than good. And there is a further warning against laying such burdens on others. Saul's oath burdened his soldiers; and Jesus rebuked those who bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on others' shoulders. Unwise severity imposed on those under us can weary and harm them, as Saul's oath wearied his army. This searches our own rashness. Do we bind ourselves and others with hasty vows and unwise severities, undertaken in the heat of a moment without weighing their wisdom or their cost? Saul's rash oath troubled the land, weakened his army, and drove them to sin; and it warns us against the rash commitments and imposed burdens that do more harm than good. The wiser way is not the hasty vow or the harsh imposed rule, but a measured wisdom that weighs the effect of what we bind ourselves and others to, refusing the rash severity that troubles rather than helps.

Do I bind myself, or others under me, with rash vows and unwise, imposed severities undertaken in the heat of a moment without weighing their wisdom or their effect, and can Saul's rash oath, which troubled the land, left his army faint, and drove them to sin, warn me against the hasty commitments and harsh burdens that do more harm than good, moving me instead toward a measured wisdom that counts the cost of what I bind myself and others to?