Whose Rights?
Psalm 50:
12-23
God does
not need the sacrifices we make, sacrifices that are nothing but blind efforts
and actions to entice Him to respond as we desire. Such efforts are empty and
amount nothing more than God’s displeasure.
God wants
your heart filled with thanksgiving and praise. Such a heart is backed up by
truthful living, the living of faith in any and all situations. It is living
and verbal profession of who we trust in.
If you do
this, God will know your heart and will. He will acknowledge and accept your
honest confession of faith. He will deliver you from your past and lead you
through the results of your sinful actions into a land of “milk and honey.”
The
unbeliever has no rights before God. No amount of ordained ritual and practices
will entice him to respond to those dead in their sins. The unbeliever has no
rights before God because they hate God’s disciplined instructions for their
lives. Such people ignore him and seek to understand the application of his
words for their lives. Ignoring him they continue to whole-heartily associate
with the wicked. They speak words that reveal the deceitful hearts they
possess. They lie and slander to gain for themselves.
God’s slow
response to evil is not grounds for denying he can see or know that evil
exists. It is not grounds to claim that God does not concern himself with our
thoughts or actions. What they think is God’s silence is really His patience
and tolerance until the day when he will speak for their eternity. God will
have the final word!
Before he
speaks for the final time, he offers warnings for all to hear and respond to.
Without a heart of repentance, they will leave this world with no hope for
Rescue.
Honor God
with thanksgiving and praise. This opens the way for you to see and receive
God’s salvation.
How do you
respond to ......
False
accusations about you?
Lies spoken
about those who do good?
Ridicule
targeted at the helpless?
Anger
directed toward the weak?
Violence
against the innocent?