Psalm 75: Thanks!

A question to ponder on a Saturday afternoon: when's the last time, outside of Sunday worship, you said "thanks" to God?  What did you thank God for?  Was your thanks expressed haltingly or with exuberance?  Did you want to do a little dance or did you feel awkward?  Finally, why did you thank God?  Was it because you felt obligated or because you wanted to?  The answers to these questions will tell you something about your relationship with God and how, during this season of Lent, with prayer and introspection, you might enrich this most important of connections -- and in doing so, find yourself with another reason to thank God.

We give you thanks, O God, we give you thanks, *
calling upon your Name and declaring all your wonderful deeds.
“I will appoint a time,” says God; *
“I will judge with equity.
Though the earth and all its inhabitants are quaking, *
I will make its pillars fast.
I will say to the boasters, ‘Boast no more,’ *
and to the wicked, ‘Do not toss your horns;
Do not toss your horns so high, *
nor speak with a proud neck.’”
For judgment is neither from the east nor from the west, *
nor yet from the wilderness or the mountains.
It is God who judges; *
he puts down one and lifts up another.
For in the LORD’s hand there is a cup,
full of spiced and foaming wine; *
the LORD pours it out,
and all the wicked of the earth shall drink and drain the dregs.
But I will rejoice for ever; *
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
God shall break off all the horns of the wicked; *
but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

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