Psalm 103:1-14

One of the compound names of God is Jehovah-Rapha, meaning "I am the Lord that healeth thee" (Exodus 15:26 b). It is God who heals us. He heals us of all kinds of diseases, and will ultimately deliver us permanently from every form of sickness.

Sometimes He heals us through the tremendous recuperative powers which He has placed in our bodies. This is why doctors often say, "Most things are better by morning." Sometimes He heals through...

Daily, habitually. Consider that thou hast every day an engagement with God to praise him. He has certainly a claim upon thee to consider and, in some measure, estimate his benefits bestowed on thee. A generous soul cannot bear to think that perhaps some one has bestowed on him some favor of which he is not aware. The thought of an unacknowledged kindness would keep him awake at night.

The command to bless the Lord is a command to take up, and not tread under foot, a shower of joys...

The meaning is, forget not any, remember all. The right recollection of a benefit is all but equal to a new benefit. As God is the same, as the expressions of his goodness are expressions of eternal goodness, the recollection of a past benefit may well be cherished since it is in a certain sense not past but present. Each token of love let down by God into my life, projects itself forward indefinitely, and accompanies me on an undying mission, to declare that God and I are friends through...

The believer walks as seeing him who is invisible, and receives everything from the hand of his heavenly Father. He does not overlook the part that he himself may have had in bringing about a calamity; nor the part that his fellow-men may have had in it; nor the agency of evil spirits; nor the laws of nature, if so you choose to call them; but after noticing these causes his soul looks away to the Great Cause, to him who sitteth upon the throne of the universe and is not unmindful of a...

Perfect love casteth out fear; but not the fear "here spoken of. There is no torment in this fear. It is at home in company with the most unlimited confidence. The man that trusts in God is the same as the man that fears God; the two expressions are convertible, and are over and over interchanged in the word of God. Let the man that thinks he fears God, see to it that he trusts in God: and let the man that thinks he trusts in God, see to it that he fears God.

He fears God who has a...

Among those who read the Bible, how small a proportion, what an insignificant minority are the broken and contrite in heart! How rare a thing it is to see a man who is bowed down beneath a sense of his sinfulness, and who finds it difficult to conceive that there should ever be pardon for him! How small the number of such!

Now see what honor God has put upon these few. A great deal of his word seems to be intended just for them. God, so to speak, passes by the crowds of those who are...

Psalms 103:1

"Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name!"

These is not a single sad note in all this Psalm - it is all joy. There is not a sentence of petition in the Psalm - it is all praise. And have you noticed that there are in the Bible very many more calls to praise - than to prayer...

Psalms 103:2

"Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits!"

Every part of our being should join in praising God. The song of praise we sing - should not be a solo, a duet, or even a quartet - but a full chorus, the feelings, the affections, the mental powers, the tastes, the desires - all mingling in harmony and praise. There are some who praise with their voices - but not with their

Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God. § One of them, when he saw that he was healed, returned, and with a loud voice glorified God, and fell down on his face at His feet, giving Him thanks. And he was a Samaritan. So Jesus answered and said, “Were there not ten cleansed? But where are the nine? Were there not any found who returned to give glory to God except this foreigner?”Every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving;...

You shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not… You should know in your heart that as a man chastens his son, so the Lord your God chastens you.I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me. . . . It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I may learn Your statutes. . . ....