Every time that I read this Psalm, it blesses me!!!
Here is Psalm 103: 1-9 in the Common English Bible!!! I just love it!!! Could there be a more beautiful Psalm?
Psalm 103:1-4 (CEB)
1 Let my whole being bless the LORD!
Let everything inside me
bless his holy name!
2 Let my whole being bless the LORD
and never forget all his good deeds:
3 how God forgives all your sins,
heals all your sickness,
4 saves your life from the pit,
crowns you with faithful love
and compassion,
I just had to stop and comment here!!! Did you see how verse 4 describes God’s LOVE??? I would NOT have thought to describe God’s Love as FAITHFUL, and yet that is exactly what HIS LOVE is!!! He is always faithful!!! He never changes HIS MIND about how much HE loves us!!! He is always faithful and true!!!
Let everything inside me
bless his holy name!
2 Let my whole being bless the LORD
and never forget all his good deeds:
3 how God forgives all your sins,
heals all your sickness,
4 saves your life from the pit,
crowns you with faithful love
and compassion,
I just had to stop and comment here!!! Did you see how verse 4 describes God’s LOVE??? I would NOT have thought to describe God’s Love as FAITHFUL, and yet that is exactly what HIS LOVE is!!! He is always faithful!!! He never changes HIS MIND about how much HE loves us!!! He is always faithful and true!!!
And what this verse actually says is that HE crowns you and me with FAITHFUL LOVE AND COMPASSION!!! And that is so true!!! No one could ever LOVE us like God loves us!!! And of course, we should never expect them to love us that much!!! But to know that God loves me that much makes my heart sing with joy!!!
HE MAKES ME HAPPY!!! Serving God and pleasing God makes me HAPPY!!! It fills my life with JOY!!!
That is one of the reasons that I write this blog!!! I want everyone one to know and understand God like I do!!! I want everyone to know HOW GOOD MY GOD IS!!!
That is one of the reasons that I write this blog!!! I want everyone one to know and understand God like I do!!! I want everyone to know HOW GOOD MY GOD IS!!!
God is so good that HE gives to us and gives to us!!! He wants us to be blessed!!! And HE wants us to be HAPPY!!! He wants us to live life to the fullest!!!
Psalm 103:5 (CEB) and satisfies you with plenty of good things so that your youth is made fresh like an eagle’s.
That is why verse 5 says that He gives us good things!!! It tells us that HE wants us to be young and vital!!! That is why it says that our youth is made fresh like the eagles!!!
Psalm 103:6 CEB) The LORD works righteousness; does justice for all who are oppressed.
Psalm 103:6 (KJV) The LORD executeth righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed.
We need to remember that God says in HIS WORD that we reap what we sow!!!
Galatians 6:7 (CEV) You cannot fool God, so don't make a fool of yourself! You will harvest what you plant.
When we are good to others and treat them kindly, then we reap good things and we reap kindness. When we oppress other people or treat them evil, then we ourselves will be oppressed and treated evil!!!
I recently wrote that God knows how many hairs you have on your head!!! And that HE knows when the little birdie falls out of its nest!!! And so when I read that God is concerned about ALL those that are oppressed, and that HE is going to make sure that justice is done for them, I know that it is true!!!
Psalm 103:7 (CEB) God made his ways known to Moses; made his deeds known to the Israelites.
We can look at how good HE was to the children of Israel and know how merciful God is to HIS PEOPLE!!! But even in reading about them and their journey, we find that God is also merciful to others, as well.
God delivered HIS PEOPLE, but HE didn’t allow them to mistreat others. And HE doesn’t want any of us to mistreat another person!!
When the children of Israel cried out to God and sought HIM, HE always heard their cries and brought deliverance to them!!! HE WILL DO THE SAME FOR ANYONE TODAY WHO CRIES OUT TO HIM!!!
Psalm 103:8-9 (CEB)
8 The LORD is compassionate and merciful, very patient, and full of faithful love.
9 God won’t always play the judge; he won’t be angry forever.
Psalm 103:8-9 (KJV)
8The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
Some people have this image of God as an angry GOD who sits in Heaven just waiting on us to make mistakes and that just isn’t so!!! He is sitting there watching and waiting for us to cry out to HIM!!! He wants us to ask for forgiveness, because HE WANTS TO FORGIVE US!!!
He wants us to realize that we need HIM!!! He wants to love us and bless us and help us out of our mess!!!
You know, I even hear folks say that if you get yourself into a mess, don’t expect for God to get you out. Well, I am here to tell you THAT IS A LIE FROM THE PITS OF HELL!!!
God doesn’t get us into messes!!! But He sure knows how to get us out!!!
Don’t you know that GOD SPENDS ALL HIS TIME GETTING US OUT OF OUR MESSES!!!
Just as verse 8 says, The LORD is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
GOD IS WAITING FOR US TO CALL ON HIM SO THAT HE CAN SHOW US HIS MERCY!!!! SO THAT HE CAN SHOW US HIS LOVE AND HIS COMPASSION!!!
Psalm 103:8 (CEB) The LORD is compassionate and merciful, very patient, and full of faithful love.
If God did NOT love us so much and if HE wasn’t so patient and forgiving, most of us would already be in HELL!!! I know that I would already be dead and in HELL if it wasn’t for GOD’S PATIENCE AND HIS MERCY!!!
God tells us in the first 4 verses of Psalm 118, that HE IS GOOD AND HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER.
Then HE tells us again in verse 29!!!
He tells us this over and over again because HE wants us to understand how much HE loves us!!!! And how MERCIFUL HE IS!!!
Psalm 118:1,29 (NKJV)
1 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
29 Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
For His mercy endures forever.
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