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 https://www.gotquestions.org/sacrifice-of-praise.html

I think my pastor was about to explain this verse when he was using it as a proof text in expositing another section of scripture in The Bible.  Or maybe he thought the two seconds he spent on it were sufficient...idk.  It probably would not have mattered.  This article seems authoritative enough but is lacking in coherency.  How does praising God for no discernable reason count as a "sacrifice"?  The cost of praising Him is not even mentioned.  It simply says there is one and in what kinds of circumstances it occurs.  I'm guessing the cost is one's selfishness 🤔. The examples given here are relatively petty.  Someone else makes a less than ideal decision and we're expected to think of it as a sacrifice to not demand our wishes be granted but instead trust Him that there's more than meets the eye?  You don't even need to think that hard about it when it comes to other people's decisions.  Wicked people exist.  God does not put us in a protective bubble once we experience salvation.  The Holy Spirit keeps us from rejecting Him after we reach out to Him in faith, but getting one's dream home or getting an increase in cash flow is not what it's all about, as pleasant as those things are.  Those things will fall away like a person drowning in quicksand.  I can just imagine a person at 99 years old looking back on their dream home and cash flow and I shudder to think of either response.  One of gratitude...that instead of joining in the fight and trying to tell people, with words and actions, that Christ *is* Lord and that anyone who comes to Him He will not cast out but will instead lavish His love and strength upon them... instead of being sorrowful over the lack of blessing one has been to mankind in the name of Jesus, they watch blindly their last sunset.