Psalm 50
"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God. I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me. I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Sacrifice thank-offerings to God, fulfil your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honour me."
I believe that Psalm 50 is telling us that higher than our ritual of singing songs is the simple acknowledgement that God is what we need. In Verse 15 the Psalmist urges to call on God when we are in trouble; this is what God wants over our sacrificial ritualistic Sunday morning or big event praise offerings. The Israelites were very quick to offer sacrifice through burnt offerings, but God wanted more than that, he wanted to be present when his people needed help, God wants to be part of everything.
We have a tendency to find comfort in the song and not in the comforter. It is more difficult to find the creator in the mundane things of life than in your favourite songs on Sunday, but when you do, when you begin to find him in all the stuff of life, everything starts to sing. This is living praise.
I hope that my worship becomes more than a song. I pray that my worship is habitual. I pray that my worship becomes the worship found in Psalm 50. Make worship your lifestyle.
Tim Beattie
"Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, and I will testify against you: I am God, your God. I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before me. I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats? Sacrifice thank-offerings to God, fulfil your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honour me."
I believe that Psalm 50 is telling us that higher than our ritual of singing songs is the simple acknowledgement that God is what we need. In Verse 15 the Psalmist urges to call on God when we are in trouble; this is what God wants over our sacrificial ritualistic Sunday morning or big event praise offerings. The Israelites were very quick to offer sacrifice through burnt offerings, but God wanted more than that, he wanted to be present when his people needed help, God wants to be part of everything.
We have a tendency to find comfort in the song and not in the comforter. It is more difficult to find the creator in the mundane things of life than in your favourite songs on Sunday, but when you do, when you begin to find him in all the stuff of life, everything starts to sing. This is living praise.
I hope that my worship becomes more than a song. I pray that my worship is habitual. I pray that my worship becomes the worship found in Psalm 50. Make worship your lifestyle.
Tim Beattie
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