Wednesday Reading: Psalm 50:7-15
Key Verse: Psalm 50:14
14 Offer to God thanksgiving; and pay your vows to the Most High;
Devotion:
Right from the early days, man has gone about things in the wrong way. When God told Adam and Eve and their children about sacrifices, even they got it wrong. Cain offered a sacrifice that he thought would be good enough even though he had been commanded to give a meat sacrifice. We always take God’s Word and apply our own ideals over it to make it sound like our own ideals are what God actually wants! We are not alone in doing this but sometimes we get so carried away that we make our normal duties of little or no affect.
In this Psalm we are reminded that to obey God is more important that any sacrifice; nowadays we have no need for sacrifice because Christ has already paid the ultimate sacrifice on our behalf. We are reminded that what we do should be done because of our love for God and not because of a sense of duty. If we are going to church because “that is what people do” then we are not showing God that we love Him but showing man that we can do what they can do! If we go to church because that is what is done, then we are not showing our repentance and we are not seeking forgiveness; we are in effect making Christ’s sacrifice of no affect!
Our troubles should bring us to Him in faith, calling on His name as our Saviour. Our blessing should bring us to Him in happiness, praising Him for all He does for us. We need to depend on His power, His wisdom, His strength, His goodness and His faithfulness knowing that He is the one that can and will deliver us from evil. We need to faithfully keep up our daily walk with Him so that we can show Him that we do it because of our love for Him – just like He continues to look after us because of His love for us. Through everything we do, God should be glorified and not us...
Points to Ponder:
Do you willingly give to your friends?
Do you willingly give back to God?
