"By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name."
Hebrews 13:15
The idea that praise is a sacrifice is an interesting one here, and I wonder if it is because we have to overcome our own pride, admitting/aknowledging that we need help, or perhaps it is because it takes effort and faith to work through our own feelings about what we think God should be doing versus what God knows he should be doing. We get angry sometimes because things don't go the way that we want them to, and have a hard time realizing that whenever there is a difference between our will and God's will, God is the one that is right. That's tough on our egos sometimes, because we not only want to be right, but it is also hard to do the work to understand God's perspective, especially when it is very different than our own on something we care a lot about.
Today, let's work on the sacrifice of praise, remembering to be grateful and to compliment God's virtues... his wisdom, power, light, mercy, perfection, truth, beauty, etc. All of it... and yeah, maybe God doesn't need the compliments/acknowledgements to boost his mood or to reassure him the way we mortals sometimes do, but I think *we* need that reinforcement and reminder that we really do need and love God, and that we recognize how amazing he is. :)
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