Ps 50 21"you thought I was altogether like you."

The Psalmist is teaching that God has taken care of all of our troubles. He has given the answers in His word. He is the only one who has the answers to all of our problems because He controls life and death. Every thing that God says is backed up with His ability to recreate life out of death. God is the only one who can command the end of our sorrows by silencing all of our opposition. God is the only one who can judge evil and corruption with the vengeance that is beyond our understanding and bless us with gifts that are too good for us to imagine. In order for God to claim that His word is all we need is the proof that He is absolute in backing it up. This is why God is not like man.

All men speak with pragmatism. The truth is that every man experiencing the loss of physical and spiritual strength. The question is can we put our trust in someone whos life is fleeting? You see that the entire value system of the world is built upon surviving the inevitable slide into physical death. Mans needs are greater than the profits of the world. This is why all earthly governments end in debt that brings about hunger and death. The truth is that man has no control over the massive suffering of the human race. We are all indebted to saving a sinking ship. This is why there is only One person who speaks with the authority to reverse the course of the lives His people who are headed in the direction of the culture. So God has contained our lives by speaking the law, covenants, curses, statutes, decrees and promises in the plan of redemption. This redemption that was pictured in the daily animal sacrifices of Israel.

The physical markers of the ot worship were reminders that Gods axioms could reorder the entire world to save Israel. But the problem was because the people did not know the axioms they destroyed the culture by planning to overthrow Gods word. Every time they sacrificed the animal they were motivated to speak the axioms.  But they began to sacrifice without understand the law,  covenants, curses, statutes, etc. God was proving in the sacrifice in controlling life and death that He was the only one that could be trusted to defend the people. Instead of calling on God through the pronouncements they began to trust in the words of fallen men. God had done the work in enacting the law that overcomes all lawless nations.  They had not offered the sacrifices under the authority of the curses. This is why the Psalmist says they trusted in their own strength by focusing on the outward forms of the sacrifices .The sacrifices were reminders that God saves His people by bringing the entire nation to the line of blessing and cursing. God speaks the curses in detesting the pragmatism of the nations. God is saying that He will tear them to pieces like the animal because they did not detest the sins of the nations.  God backs His word up in life and death pronouncements by the physical portrayal of the sacrifice.