October 4
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PSALM 50 WARNING TO THOSE WHO FORGET GOD
12 “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine.
13 Do I eat the flesh of bulls or drink the blood of goats?
14 Offer to God a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and perform your vows to the Most High,
15 and call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.”
16 But to the wicked God says: “What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?
17 For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
18 If you see a thief, you are pleased with him, and you keep company with adulterers.
19 “You give your mouth free rein for evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother’s son.
21 These things you have done, and I have been silent;
you thought that I was one like yourself.
But now I rebuke you and lay the charge before you.
22 “Mark this, then, you who forget God,
lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
23 The one who offers thanksgiving as his sacrifice glorifies me;
to one who orders his way rightly I will show the salvation of God!”
– Psalm 50:12-23
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A poem inspired by this psalm by ILMA
Do you think you can live in this world and forget the one who gave you life?
Do you think that you can do what you want and not suffer any consequence from it?
If you hate restraint and discipline of any kind
You are likely living to satisfy your selfish desires
If you do not want to be accountable for your own action
Chances are that you are only concerned for gratification
You engage with people who won’t question your unrighteousness
That is why you only associate with men who do all kinds of sins and perversions
The faithful people of God do not forget their Lord who freed them from sins
The wicked denies his existence because they feel threatened by what is right.
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REFLECTION
• What is the consequence of forgetting God according to this psalm?