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Our God is the LORD, the Mighty One, who rules over all creation. God is not silent (3b). God summons all the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets. God summons the heavens above (4) which proclaim his righteousness (6). God also summons his people to judge them, for he is a God of justice. God sees and knows everything.
God called his people to judgment. He did not charge them for neglecting sacrifices. After all, every animal in the forest belongs to God. The cattle on a thousand hills are also God’s. He knows every bird and insect. If God needed sacrifices, God would not ask his people because the world belongs to him. What God truly desired from his people were thank offerings and faithfulness to him (14). God encouraged his people to call on him and experience his deliverance in times of trouble. To the wicked, God offered an opportunity to consider and repent their evil or else be torn to pieces (22).
When you bring an offering to God, is it an offering of thanks for what he has done? Do you long to “fulfill your vows” to the Most High, that is, to be faithful to him? Praise and thank God today. Give him a sacrifice of thanks and call on him. God longs for a relationship with us.
Nov 27, 2025
SACRIFICE THANK OFFERINGS
Passage: Psalms 50:1-23
Key verse: 14-15
NIV
chapter 50
1. [A psalm of Asaph.] The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to where it sets.
2. From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
3. Our God comes and will not be silent; a fire devours before him, and around him a tempest rages.
4. He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that he may judge his people:
5. "Gather to me this consecrated people, who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
6. And the heavens proclaim his righteousness, for he is a God of justice.
7. "Listen, my people, and I will speak; I will testify against you, Israel: I am God, your God.
8. I bring no charges against you concerning your sacrifices or concerning your burnt offerings, which are ever before me.
9. I have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens,
10. for every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills.
11. I know every bird in the mountains, and the insects in the fields are mine.
12. If I were hungry I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13. Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14. "Sacrifice thank offerings to God, fulfill your vows to the Most High,
15. and call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
16. But to the wicked person, God says: "What right have you to recite my laws or take my covenant on your lips?
17. You hate my instruction and cast my words behind you.
18. When you see a thief, you join with him; you throw in your lot with adulterers.
19. You use your mouth for evil and harness your tongue to deceit.
20. You sit and testify against your brother and slander your own mother’s son.
21. When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.
22. "Consider this, you who forget God, or I will tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
23. Those who sacrifice thank offerings honor me, and to the blameless I will show my salvation."
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Prayer: Father, I sacrifice thank offerings to you for you deserve nothing less. Thank you for delivering me from sin and death and shepherding me.
One Word: Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving