Psalm Meditation 1327 ¶Reign of Christ ¶November 23, 2025 ¶Psalm 50 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%2050&version=NRSVUE ¶How many of us find ourselves doing things to impress God with our worthiness in regards to our salvation. We are part of the right congregation, we go to all the right meetings, sit in the proper seat with a good view of all the people we know to be sinners so that we can better judge them for their hypocrisy, coming to worship as if they deserve to be there. Aaand, we participate in all the fund raisers, and many of the mission projects; we even go on the field trips to build a sense of community in the congregation. ¶We spend so much time in our attempts to impress God with our sacrifices of time, talent, and energy that we forget what God really wants from us. It isn’t about great deeds of derring-do, saving the world from other people’s sins, or going to all the meetings we would rather not attend, it is about being thankful. God has all the ‘stuff’ that we offer to help ourselves be noticed by God as well as others. God wants us to thankful in a way that touches others with a sense of thankfulness as well. When we are willingly and openly thankful, we keep finding more and more things to be thankful for and thankful about. And thankfulness rubs off on others and feeds on itself. ¶When we live thankfully we touch people in the same way God touches us, with a leaning toward thanks, grace, and mercy. As we touch people with thanks rather than judgement, we each take a step closer to the life that leads to a growing awareness that we are already in the realm of God. “Those who bring thanksgiving as their sacrifice honor me; to those who go the right way, I will show the salvation of God.” ¶November 17, 2025 ¶LCM