Giving thanks can be hard to do, especially when life is not easy. Even in the most difficult of times we have blessings from God that can lead us to thanksgiving.  Psalms of thanksgiving remind us of what God has done so that we give thanks in every circumstance.

In this psalm, the natural world offers us good reasons for giving thanks even when others are giving thanks for the wrong reasons.  Psalm 50 enables us to examine ourselves and see if our motives for giving thanks come from good reasons or not.