Psalms 50:23
The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;
to one who orders his way rightly
I will show the salvation of God!”
Tag: What does God require? Thanksgiving by Faith that He will save
Psalm 50 is a great song about what it means and what it does not mean to live in a covenant life with God. The above verse is the concluding verse to the chapter. It sums up the essence of what it means to live in covenant with God. It should be read in light of a previous verse in the same chapter:
Psalms 50:14
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and perform your vows to the Most High,
Sometimes others say it better, so here is an excerpt from a commentary on the above verse(s):
Word Biblical Commentary:
But what, in reality, was the essence of the covenant life? It was a relationship with God, certainly, but the essence of that relationship did not lie in ceremonies as such. The ceremonies signalled the deeper reality of life, that above all God required "thanksgiving" (vv 14, 23). God did not need thanksgiving to bolster his own self-esteem, as if (in the words of C. S. Lewis) he were "like a vain woman wanting compliments, or a vain author presenting his new books to people who had never met or heard of him" (Reflections on the Psalms, 79). God wanted thanksgiving, for that in turn emerged from human lives full of joy; it was the joyful lives of the covenant members, expressed so vividly in the sacrifices and words of the ceremony, which fulfilled in God the richness of relationship which he had given to his people.
God wants us to simply seek Him and to reflect, in Thanksgiving, on Him. He has and will bring HIs salvation. We are to praise Him. We are to thank Him for His goodness and salvation.
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