Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless His holy name.
Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits: who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.Psalm 103:1-5
This Psalm, not just the above portion, is called a Psalm of David.
This Psalm is a song about God, and His benefits, First of all we must realize that the LORD God is holy, separate from all others.
What are some of those benefits?
- First we see that he forgives all our iniquities, and in this day and in all the times He forgives our iniquities because of the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross.
- Then, He is the One, the only one who can heal all our diseases. When Jesus came to earth to walk among Adam’s race He went about the land of Israel healing all kinds of sicknesses, and He is the Great Physician who heals all our diseases. If a doctor is given credit for a healing of one of his patients, then he needs to give God the glory for that.
- He redeems us, and keeps us from eternal damnation, and gives us eternal; keeping us from the pit of hell, through the blood of Jesus Christ, which was shed on Calvary’s cross.
- He crowns us with His loving kindness, and tender mercies which are new every morning, and all day long; and all through the night. All because of the sacrifice of a perfect, spotless Lamb, who is Jesus Christ.
- He gives us good things to eat, to satisfy our desires in the foods we eat; and we can also say that He gives us a cleaner mouth that we might speak to others like He would with His perfect mouth, and with words that point people to God through faith in Christ Jesus.
- Finally, through these things, these benefits we get a renewing to our youth as we age; a renewing like that of the eagle which has been said is renewed by its losing of its feathers, and new ones growing to replace; and also have some believe – When an eagle gets older its beak over grows, and causes the eagle to be unable to eat if it does not continually rub that beak against the rocky to rid the beak of its problem.
It is for sure that one day we shall receive new bodies which will be given those who have faith in Jesus Christ and His death, burial, and resurrection. Read 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18; 1 Corinthians 15; and Revelation 20.
Will you believe Him today?