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Daily Devotionals
Bowen's Daily Meditations
" Bless the Lord, my soul" - Psalms 103:1.
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 that have descended upon the place where you stand. Some fruit comes to you wrapped in many envelopes. You tear them off, throw them away, eat the fruit, and think of something else. But those envelopes were bank-notes of great value. God gives you something; you say this is to be eaten, and you eat it; but it was not merely given to be eaten; it was given to reveal unto you something of the wisdom, power, love, and condescension of God; to spread out before you an illuminated page of a book of heaven. I say again, the command to bless God is a command to take up many joys that you have let fall.
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