Bless the Lord, my soul, and do not forget any of His benefits

Psalm 103 from the daily reading in the One Year Bible

Bless the Lord, my soul,
And all that is within me, bless His holy name.
² Bless the Lord, my soul,
And do not forget any of His benefits;
³ Who pardons all your guilt,
Who heals all your diseases;
⁴ Who redeems your life from the pit,
Who crowns you with favor and compassion;
⁵ Who satisfies your years with good things,
So that your youth is renewed like the eagle.

⁶ The Lord performs righteous deeds
And judgments for all who are oppressed.
⁷ He made known His ways to Moses,
His deeds to the sons of Israel.
⁸ The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in mercy.
⁹ He will not always contend with us,
Nor will He keep His anger forever.
¹⁰ He has not dealt with us according to our sins,
Nor rewarded us according to our guilty deeds.
¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.
¹² As far as the east is from the west,
So far has He removed our wrongdoings from us.
¹³ Just as a father has compassion on his children,
So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him.
¹⁴ For He Himself knows our form;
He is mindful that we are nothing but dust.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass;
Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
¹⁶ When the wind has passed over it, it is no more,
And its place no longer knows about it.
¹⁷ But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting for those who fear Him,
And His justice to the children’s children,
¹⁸ To those who keep His covenant
And remember His precepts, so as to do them.

¹⁹ The Lord has established His throne in the heavens,
And His sovereignty rules over all.
²⁰ Bless the Lord, you His angels,
Mighty in strength, who perform His word,
Obeying the voice of His word!
²¹ Bless the Lord, all you His angels,
You who serve Him, doing His will.
²² Bless the Lord, all you works of His,
In all places of His dominion;
Bless the Lord, my soul!

In Matthew 22:37-38 Jesus says: “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the great and foremost commandment.”  The psalmist says: Bless the Lord, my soul, And all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, my soul, And do not forget any of His benefits. Our soul incorporates our thoughts, our will and our body.  If we love God with our heart, soul and mind, then we will bless Him not only with all that is within us, but also  with all that we say and do. In John 14:15 Jesus says: “If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.”  It is not enough that we say that we love the Lord. Our words and our actions must be in agreement with our profession. In Matthew 7:21-23 Jesus says: “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; leave Me, you who practice lawlessness.’” 1 John 1:5-10 says: God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth; but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous, so that He will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.  Here is the greatest thing, in John 14:15 Jesus says that if we love Him we will keep His commandments, look at what is the result for us. In verses 16-17;23 Jesus says: “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, so that He may be with you forever; the Helper is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it does not see Him or know Him; but you know Him because He remains with you and will be in you… “If anyone loves Me, he will follow My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our dwelling with him.” If we love Him and keep His commandments, it will be His Spirit, Jesus Himself and the Father who will be with us and in us. How could we not bless Him. 

Secondly, we should not only bless God because of all of His benefits, rather we should bless Him because He is God. Psalm 100:3 says: Know that the Lord Himself is God; It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves; We are His people and the sheep of His pasture. We should praise God and bless Him with our obedience, not because of what He does, but because of who He is, because He is God. The truth is, God owes us nothing, yet by His grace He gives us everything. The psalmist says: Who pardons all your guilt, Who heals all your diseases; Who redeems your life from the pit, Who crowns you with favor and compassion; Who satisfies your years with good things, So that your youth is renewed like the eagle. The Lord  performs righteous deeds And judgments for all who are oppressed. He made known His ways to Moses, His deeds to the sons of Israel. The Lord is compassionate and gracious, Slow to anger and abounding in mercy. He will not always contend with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our guilty deeds. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His mercy toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our wrongdoings from us. Just as a father has compassion on his children, So the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him. For He Himself knows our form; He is mindful that we are nothing but dust. As for man, his days are like grass; Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes. When the wind has passed over it, it is no more, And its place no longer knows about it. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting for those who fear Him, And His justice to the children’s children, To those who keep His covenant And remember His precepts, so as to do them. 

With the psalmist we declare: The Lord has established His throne in the heavens, And His sovereignty rules over all. Bless the Lord, you His angels, Mighty in strength, who perform His word, Obeying the voice of His word! Bless the Lord, all you His angels, You who serve Him, doing His will. Bless the Lord, all you works of His, In all places of His dominion; Bless the Lord, my soul!

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