Psalm 50 Prayed
Offering
God our true sacrifices
O God, you are the Mighty One,
the Lord.
You
speak and summons the earth
from the rising of the sun
to
the place where it sets.
From the heavenly Zion, perfect
in beauty,
you
shine forth as our God.
O God, come and do not be
silent;
with
a fire devouring before you,
and
a tempest raging around you.
Summons the heavens above,
and
the earth, that you may judge us,
your
people, saying:
“Gather to me my consecrated
ones,
who
made a covenant with me
by
sacrifice:
All who have partaken of the
blood of Jesus;
the
blood of the covenant,
which is poured out for many
for
the forgiveness of sins.”
And the heavens proclaim your righteousness,
for
you are God, you are judge.
Open our ears, O Lord,
and
make us listen you saying to us:
“Hear, O my people, and I will
speak,
O
all my Church, I will testify against you:
I
am God, your God.
I do not rebuke you for
your sacrifices
or
your offerings of money,
which
are ever before me.
I have no need of a few
of your coins
in
the collection plate,
or
of a cheque from your bank account,
for every penny on earth is
mine,
and
all the cash of a thousand banks.
If I were in poverty I
would not tell you,
for
the world is mine, and all that is in it.
Do not think you can buy me
off,
or
that I need your tax-deductable donations.
Instead, sacrifice thank
offerings to God,
fulfil
your vows to the Most High,
and call upon me in the
day of trouble;
I
will deliver you, and you will honour me.”
But to the hypocrites in the
Church, God says:
“What
right have you to recite your prayers
or
take my covenant on your lips?
You hate my instruction in the
Bible
and
cast my words behind you.
When you see a thief, you join
with him;
you
throw in your lot with adulterers.
You use your mouth for evil
and
harness your tongue to deceit.
“You speak continually against
your brother
and
slander your own mother’s child.
These things you have done and
I kept silent;
you
thought I was altogether like you.
But I will rebuke you
and
accuse you to your face."
So help us to consider this,
lest we forget you,
O
God,
lest
we are torn to pieces,
with
none to rescue us:
May our sacrifices and
offerings be given to you
with
thankfulness,
so
that we may honour you,
and
so you can prepare the way,
so that we may show others
your
salvation, O God.
And help us to live a life of
love,
just
as Christ loved us
and gave himself up for us
as
a fragrant offering and sacrifice to you,
O
God.
Oh, the depth of the riches
of
the wisdom and knowledge of you, O God!
How unsearchable your
judgments,
and
your paths beyond tracing out!
Who has known your mind, O
Lord?
Or
who has been you counsellor?
Who has ever given to you, O
God,
that
you should repay him?
For from you and through you
and to you
are
all things.
To
you be the glory forever! Amen.
Therefore, in view of your
mercy,
we
offer our bodies as living sacrifices,
holy and pleasing to you, O
God—
this
is our spiritual act of worship.
Do not let us conform any
longer to the pattern
of
this world,
but
be transformed by the renewing
of
our minds.
Then we will be able to test
and approve what
your
will is—
your
good, pleasing and perfect will.
Through Jesus, therefore, we will continually offer
to
you, O God, a sacrifice of praise—
the
fruit of lips that confess your name.
Let us not forget to do good
and
to share with others,
for with all such
sacrifice you are pleased.
Heb. 13:15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer
to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that confess his name. 16 And do not
forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is
pleased.
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Psalm 50 Prayed
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