{"id":3482,"date":"2020-06-22T20:22:57","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T03:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2020-06-22T20:23:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T03:23:11","slug":"hobart-herd-devotional-psalms-50-6-22-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3482","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Herd Devotional – Psalms 50 – 6-22-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 50 \u2013\n6-22-20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Two worship choruses came to mind as I was\nreading the words of this Psalm.  \u201cFrom\nthe Rising of the sun to the going down thereof\u201d, the name of the Lord shall be\npraised.(vs. 1)  \u201cHe Owns the Cattle on a\nThousand Hills\u201d is an old, old, chorus from my childhood days is found in verse\n10.  These choruses were meant for worship\nand praise as we sang them, but in this Psalm they are statements about the\nlack of true worship of the Lord.  Both\nthese verses mention things that God was angry about with His people.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   The first was the lack of recognizing Who He\nwas and the respect and honor due His name; and the second was the hypocritical\nway Israel was worshiping with sacrifices galore and yet they were not truly\nworshiping with thankfulness from the heart. \nThe first 2 verses set us up with the beauty and glory of our great\nGod.  Then comes the complaints that God\nhad against His people. He reminds them in verse 5 that they made a covenant\nwith God for following His commands in obedience.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   In verses 7-13, God says that they have\noverwhelmed Him with their sacrifices as if He needed more animals or ate them\nfor sustenance.  But they had failed to\noffer the sacrifice of their lips in thanksgiving.  Psalms 50:14-15, 14 <\/sup>         Offer unto God thanksgiving; And pay\nthy vows unto the most High:15 <\/sup>      And\ncall upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify\nme.(ESV)  Oh that I would remember continually\nto be thankful in my requests and to make my petitions with a heart filled with\ngratitude and praise.  They were reciting\nHis Word with lips and hearts that were filled with sin and ugliness.  They were misrepresenting God in the way they\nspoke and lived.  God\u2019s warning was this:\nPsalms 50:21-22, 21 <\/sup>      These\nthings you have done, and I have been silent; you thought that I was one like\nyourself. But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you. 22 <\/sup>        \u201cMark this, then, you who forget God, lest\nI tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!(ESV)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   So what is the answer to reclaiming praise\nand worship that glorifies God?  Psalms\n50:23, 23 <\/sup>    The one who\noffers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me; to one who orders his way\nrightly I will show the salvation of God!\u201d(ESV) \nWe must come to God with a lips and heart filled with thanksgiving and\npraise, and order our ways in a way that shows our faith and trust in the righteous\nGod of our salvation.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Father, forgive me for acting like Your\npeople of old in the way I treat You in worship.  Many times I have come to You with\ncomplaints, worries, fears and anger, refusing to recognize with thanksgiving Who\nYou are and What You have done for me. \nForgive me for using Your Word and commands without following them from\nmy heart bringing a wrong picture to the world around me.  Give me a heart of thanksgiving and make my\nsteps to walk in Your way as one who trusts and has faith in the God of my\nsalvation.  In Jesus Name, Amen!  Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 50 \u2013 6-22-20    Two worship choruses came to mind as I was reading the words of this Psalm.  \u201cFrom the Rising of the sun to the going down thereof\u201d, the name of the Lord …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3483,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions\/3483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}