4 who redeems your life from the pit
AND CROWNS YOU WITH LOVE AND COMPASSION,
5 WHO SATISFIES YOUR DESIRES WITH GOOD THINGS
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Psalm 103, of David
Most mornings we read the first five verses of this psalm of David, when he, ‘tells his soul to Praise the Lord and forget not all His benefits’. DAVID TOLD HIS SOUL TO SPEAK TO GOD AND PRAISE HIM AND SO CAN WE.
Most Christians have no problem accepting the first part of verse 4, that ‘God redeems our lives’, because only He could accomplish that for us, but I feel there is a dearth of believing the rest of these verses. Many Believers have been through tough times and the intensity of these times is very real, but God still wants to bless and help us in the midst of them. David faced more challenges in his life than most of us, simply because he had a significant calling of God upon him. Our callings will also be tested, but God wants to bless us and give us tokens of His love as we press on with our lives on this Earth.
The Fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden brought trouble upon Adam and Eve and all their descendants. However, God did not abandon them, He provided the ‘fur coats’ to cover their bodies. Genesis 3:21 When Israel refused to enter the Promised Land, fearing the people there and disbelieving God, that generation never entered their inheritance. However, God provided for them again in the wilderness. He gave them shoes that never wore out and fed them. Deuteronomy 29:5, 6 (It’s noteworthy that God only judged the rebellious who were twenty years old and more. Numbers 14:29 He didn’t punish anyone under the age of twenty)
Part of the reason I’m writing about God’s goodness and faithfulness today is that we’ve been blessed this week by a very specific gift of two different things. Anne loves a particular red vegetable and I had a craving this week sausage rolls (sausage meat in pastry), no-one knew about this. During the week we met someone who’d recently gone through surgery and they brought us a gift of both these items. How kind of them and how amazing.
Steve Shultz quote, ‘How does He do that?’. Robin Bullock’s response, ‘That’s why we call Him God’. God’s love tokens may come in the most unexpected ways and at the most unlikely times, but like David we should always thank Him and those He uses to bless us. Amen
Of David.
1 Praise the Lord, my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
2 Praise the Lord, my soul,
and FORGET NOT ALL HIS BENEFITS –
3 who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
4 who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
5 who satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. Psalm 103
May the Lord bless and keep you today. Immanuel, God is with us.