Psalms 50:23 Meaning Whoever Offers the Sacrifice of Thanksgiving Glorifies

The conversation that must be ordered aright is not your speech with other people. It is the talking you carry on within, the endless inner speech that runs beneath the day, and this is the gift through which your world is shaped. What a person keeps saying to himself, the tone he takes and the scenes he rehearses, sets the pattern that later appears around him. This inner talk is the offering, and it is heard.

To order it aright is to hold conversations that assume the wish already granted, spoken from the end as though it were done. Praise glorifies because a mind dwelling in gratitude has already accepted the state it wants. The salvation of God is shown to the one whose inner speech matches the life he desires. When the conversation a person carries within changes, the forms in his world change with it.