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Day by Day Devotional - Year 5 of 5
Devotional: January 12th

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Psalms 103:1-22

Just as David did, let us bless God in our souls and appreciate His innumerable benefits. Sadly, we tend to keep an up-to-date list of what we lack rather than a list of all the benefits we have received. How ungrateful and inconsistent we are! For example, has it never happened that we have complained about the food at a meal time . . . for which we have just given thanks to the Lord?

Above all His other gifts, our souls have to thank God continually for the forgiveness of our sins (v. 3). If He had given us what we deserved, eternal punishment would have been our reward (v. 10). But now He has removed these sins as far away from us as possible (v. 12). He has thrown them behind His back (Isaiah 38:17), made them as white as snow (Isaiah 1:18), blotted them out as a thick cloud (Isaiah 44:22), cast them into the depths of the sea (Micah 7:19) and He will remember them no more (Isaiah 43:25; Hebrews 10:17).

To "them that fear Him" the goodness of God has no bounds (vv. 11, 13, 17; cf. Isaiah 55:7-9). Fear here does not mean dreading His anger. It is the state of mind of those who have come to know His compassion and His mercy (v. 8; read Psalms 130:4) and can always find in them fresh reasons to praise Him.

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