Psalms 50:14 (ESV Strong's)
Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving,
and perform your vows to the Most High,
Subject: Worship and Praise
This Psalm is about truly trusting and worshiping God. God is rebuking them for their false worship. They were proud of the fact that they we giving the proper animals and grain in their worship services. God rebukes them and tells them He doesn't want their bulls and goats. He tells them He already owns all the bulls and goats on a thousand hills and in all creation. What God wants in worship toward Him is a heart of Thanksgiving. When we give thanks we are saying we can't do something on our own and we have to say "thank you" to someone else for something. Having a "sacrifice" of thanks will show a true heart of worship. The second part of the verse tells us to do what we said we would do: Perform your vows. This, too, speaks toward worship. The people were saying one thing in worship and then going away and doing another. In this verse we are instructed to bring right worship (thanksgiving) and then go away and perform what we said we would perform in the worship. Offering a worship of thanks and living a life of thanks should go hand in hand. That is true worship.
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