"It's All God's"

"I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof." (Psalms 50:11-12) There is something strange about the way sacrifice works, because it does nothing for God, yet it does when it comes to us; as if that made any sense whatsoever. It is like that rainbow, which although it assures us of His promise, it reminds Him of our suffering. In other words, the blood spilled for our sins, although it gives us assurance, God does not benefit from it, He only looks upon us differently. When Jesus died upon that cross for our sins, His blood became a covering for our sins; thereby, when the Father looks upon us that are covered by the blood, He sees the result of that cleansing, He sees us white as snow. The problem that the sacrifices brought, were that they created a tally, as though God was the one who benefited from what was offered; yet, it was all God's to begin with, so really, He gained nothing from those sacrifices, no matter how many were offered. Instead, those that gave them thought they made God in debt to them by their sacrifice, as if it were payment towards some accounting of righteousness. Do we serve God because we want some credit applied to our good column? as if our service is a wage of righteousness? or do we serve Him because He is our Master and our Redeemer? If the reason we serve Him is to receive something in return, then we have already received it; sadly though, it only benefits us now, in this life, not in judgment. That is why those that did work in His name believed that they were owed something, because they were doing a work for their benefit, as if He needed something done and they did it, so now He owed them something; while the ones that did it because they loved Him, did not even know that they did anything at all... "Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them by their names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faith and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fail: but they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings of eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint." (Isaiah 40:26-31)