Title
The Thankful Keep Their Word
Scripture
Offer to God thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.
(Psalm 50:14)
Devotional
Here we have two simple, yet powerful commands: Be thankful and keep your word. Thanksgiving along with praise gets us into the presence of the Lord: "Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name."[30] Thanksgiving and praise are kindred attributes. The second of the commands, "Pay your vows to the Most High," will inevitably follow the first. For if we are truly thankful, we will obey the One to whom we give thanks. Thanksgiving is founded on trust. Not to do what we say we will do is a violation of our trust in God. How can we say that we are thankful in one breath and not keep our word in the next? The scriptures are clear: "Let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’”[1] “When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay it; For He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you have vowed—Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.”[2]