Reframe Your Perspective with Psalm 50

¹⁰For every beast of the forest is mine,
   the cattle on a thousand hills.
¹¹ I know all the birds of the hills,
   and all that moves in the field is mine.

 ¹²"If I were hungry, I would not tell you,
    for the world and its fullness are mine.
¹³Do 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,
¹⁵and call upon me in the day of trouble;
   I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me."

I needed this perspective adjustment.  Too often I slip into the notion that I am serving God and "helping Him out."  My work and my efforts become my focus.  

However, God does not depend on my sacrifice or surrender.  My work does not meet His needs (hunger and thirst).  In fact, all creation belongs to Him and follows His direction perfectly.

Instead, my reflection on Him, my thankful expression of His work in and around me is what pleases Him.  My obedience to follow His direction, just like the creation pleases Him.  My quickness to call on Him when I'm troubled pleases Him.  And when He delivers... when He rescues... when He acts, then He receives the glory.