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Psalm 51:16-17<\/strong><\/p>\n 16 For you have no delight in sacrifice; BRING THE SACRIFICE THAT GOD DELIGHTS<\/strong><\/p>\n Don\u2019t you love the sense of accomplishment? Doing something that none of your friends or family has done before. Being first in something (or somewhere). Finishing an assignment or a marathon. Feels good doesn\u2019t it? In meritocratic Singapore, it\u2019s hard to hide from the drive of progress and accomplishments.<\/p>\n Have we subtly projected this onto our spiritual life as well? Managed to do our quiet time 51 days in a row. Attended all chapel and church services (for one semester). Been on mission trips. Preached a sermon where people came to know the Lord. Wrote an awesome theological essay. Don\u2019t get me wrong, it\u2019s not that these things are bad, but why are we driven to do them?<\/p>\n Some of us do it thinking that it would please God, or to show that we are more spiritual than others, especially when we are Christian leaders. It feels good to accomplish my spiritual duties for God, but God showed me that it is all about my pride\u2014to prove my dutifulness and love to God.<\/p>\n In Psalm 51:16, David realized that his sacrifices were of no use to God because they could not cover up his intentional sins of adultery and murder. Eugene Peterson\u2019s The Message<\/em> translates vv. 16-17 pointedly: \u201cGoing through the motions doesn\u2019t please you,\u00a0a flawless performance is nothing to you. All God was looking for is a broken and contrite heart.\u201d<\/p>\n No accomplishment in our spiritual life can take the place of a truly broken heart before God. I learn that I all I needed to prove my love for God was to humble myself and repent with a contrite heart. It\u2019s not that we don\u2019t do the other things, for after all, the psalmist does talk about offering sacrifices in the last verse, \u201cthen you will delight in sacrifices of righteousness, burnt offering & whole, then bulls will be offered on your sacrifice altar\u201d (v. 19). But this time they are offered not to show \u201cwhat a good boy I am\u201d but \u201cwhat a good God he is!\u201d<\/p>\n Ilango Yagambaram [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Psalm 51:16-17 Psalm 51:16-17 16 For you have no delight in sacrifice; and were I to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased. 17 The sacrifice of God is a spirit broken; A heart broken and crushed, God, you will not despise. BRING THE SACRIFICE THAT GOD DELIGHTS Don\u2019t you love the sense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lent2019","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
\nand were I to give a burnt offering, you would not be pleased.
\n17 The sacrifice of God is a spirit broken;
\nA heart broken and crushed, God, you will not despise.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>(M.Div., Yr 2)<\/strong><\/p>\n