Recounting divine
benefits!
Verse for Today: Monday, January 28, 2013
Psalms 103:2 – Praise the
Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits.
Human brain has the capacity to
remember as well as forget. We often forget the bright past and remember the
painful events of our yesteryear. Our bitter experiences often overshadow the
best that has happened to us. We frequently dwell in our past failures but
forget our innumerable successes and victories. Thus we tend to lose the joy of
the innumerable best and revert back to the painful few. Today God wants us to
recount the best that has happened to each of us. If we look at all that God
has done for us in the past, it would so fill our hearts as to find no room for
remembering the setbacks which came our way. God has shown us His favors
because He is our beloved Father and we are His special children. He has saved
our souls from destruction and given us eternal life. This fact alone is
sufficient for us to focus on praising Him. Along with that, He has given us
all that we need to live a godly life here on earth. He has given us our basic
necessities of life and led us day by day in the past which provides additional
reasons for us to praise Him. He has given us people to love and associate
with. He has protected us from the evil one and from the snares of the enemy. All
that we are today cannot be because of our merit, goodness and qualifications,
but due only to His grace. He has shown compassion and mercy to sustain us. God
wants us to acknowledge all the benefits we have received from Him all through the
years of our past life and focus on praising Him for it all. Such a life of
praise would be life filled with gratitude and not complaints. A life of praise
would weed out all bitter roots from our lives and fill us with joy and true
contentment.
Dear friend, are you looking back
at the bitter experiences of life and feeling dejected? Was your past pain so
much as to push you to live with a depressive spirit day after day? But the
very fact that God has made it all a story of the past is sufficient for you to
praise Him. Every victory in the past is to be remembered joyfully and use it
to praise God. The protection and provisions granted to you are sufficient to
remember for generations to come. If you recount all that God has done for you
and start praising Him for it, where would you find time to remember the
failures, losses and pain that you underwent? David went through innumerable
experiences of pain, misery, threats, dangers, treacheries and insecurity in
life. He passed through discouragements, hopelessness, anguishes and
loneliness, but the Lord brought him out of it all. But David found that the
deliverance He enjoyed from the Lord was paramount in his for which he was
truly grateful to God. For David, all his experiences, whether joyful or
painful, were worth praising God because these events made him know His God
more intimately. He saw it all as the hand of God in His life which led his heart
to be filled with singing and praising. A grateful heart will not allow the
weeds of murmur to grow and that is the great lesson we can learn today from
the life of King David. Let us take the challenge to dwell continually in praising
God for all that He has done for us and all that He is going to do for us in
the days to come.
Psalms 27:13 – I am still
confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the
living.
Thought for Today
A heart filled with gratitude and praise will have no desire to dwell
in the past failures and losses.
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