“let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise–the fruit of lips that confess his name.” — Hebrews 13:15
Sacrifice involves cost. Offering a sacrifice means giving up something. Sacrificing something that costs nothing is no sacrifice at all. Cf. 1 Chronicles 21:24.
We offer a valuable sacrifice when we praise God even in times when we don’t feel like it. Life circumstances may be gloomy, the future unclear — praise God anyway. Give up your feeling of entitlement to self-pity and worry. Surrender your finite vision of things and exalt the infinite God. When we intentionally confess that God is God, we trade in human frailty for the joy of being in His awesome presence. Then do we live out John 3:30 — “He must become greater; I must become less.”
