Psalm 50

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High, and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.

Psalm 50:14-15

Psalm 50 starts out with verses surrounding God's power, and honestly, the fact that He does not need us at all. The verses speak of the way that God honors the sacrifices that we make to Him, but that He does not need them because the forest, the cattle, the birds, anything that moves is His. As we know from Genesis, God is the creator of everything that is good, and He is the creator of anything that we could give Him as a worthy offering. Everything that we have, everything that we think we have worked for, everything that we think we have earned, is all a gift from God. It is by the grace of God that we have anything today. The things that we work for, God has given us the knowledge and the wisdom for. The things that we obtain, God has allowed us stewardship over. He is the one who is in power, He is the one who is in control. The why is because of God, not for God. He does not need me. I need Him. When we give God thanks, when we recognize Him, when we see Him in things, we are giving Him the glory. We are allowing Him to reign and recognizing that His power is no match for our own and that we have nothing on our own. We often pray to Him and call upon His name when we are in trouble, and He delivers us, and in return all He asks is that we thank Him for what He has done.

I know for me there have been very difficult and dark times in life. I know that my flesh is very weak. I know that I have gotten into trouble and I know that I have a need for a savior, and I know that Jesus Christ is my only savior, the one who died for me, and that truly He has delivered me and continues to deliver me day by day through the conviction of the Holy Spirit. The conviction of the Holy Spirit guides me and leads me in a direction to be more thankful, to see God in more areas of my life, to recognize that He is the one that I trust and that He is the one that has the power.