Psalm 50: We Don't Feed God; Faith in ☧ to Feed & Save

Rev. Nathan Meador, pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Plymouth, Wisconsin, joins host Rev. AJ Espinosa to study Psalm 50.

"If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world and its fullness are mine." God doesn't need our help—but even if He did—He wouldn't ask us. Psalm 50 humbles us as it calls on both God’s own “people” as well as the “God-forgetters” to repent. There is no getting away with sin, as David himself found out. He confessed his sin with Bathsheba in Psalm 51 which immediately follows, because there’s no covering up sin with pious recitations. Similarly in 1 Corinthians 10, Paul criticizes the arrogance that acts as if we do God favors with our scruples. It’s our neighbor that needs our help, not God. Christ humbly offered Himself, not to feed God, but to feed us in His sacrament for our forgiveness.