Sacrifice of Thanksgiving

Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

I will not accept a bull from your house, or goats from your folds.

For every wild animal of the forest is mine, the cattle on a thousand hills.

I know all the birds of the air, and all that moves in the field is mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and all that is in it is mine.

Do I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?

Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High.

Call on me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will glorify me.

Psalm 50:8-15

Part of us being made in HIS likeness has to do with the free will He has given us. While, ultimately, God is sovereign and controls all, He gives us the freedom to make choices. This is noted in the above psalm, when He distinguishes cattle, birds and animals that people would sacrifice from the thanksgiving of the people themselves.

When you think about it, thanksgiving [surrender, gratitude] really is all we have to give HIM. The only thing we have to give to Him is our brokenness. And it is precisely in our brokenness that HE is glorified.

In Christ-

TKK