Psalm 103
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Praise the LORD, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
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Praise the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits--
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who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases,
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who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion,
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who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's.God has created everything by speaking it into existence. When we appeal to Him we appeal on the authority of His word which provides us with a holistic response to our souls and a kings language that is consistent with how God speaks authoritatively in creating all things. God provides us with a accurate language for our understanding so that He can condescend to us in a mysterious order that is too complicated for us to communicate as He orders all things. When the Psalmist talks about praising God with all his heart , he is proclaiming the enjoyment he experiences by ordering his language which is speaking the covenants, laws, decrees, curses and promises through which the Psalmist experiences Gods condescending approach by consuming the Psalmist anger, love and time oriented thinking. The Psalmist has developed an inner man in which he has longings that are too wonderful to understand by dwelling in this mysterious freedom of God. This mystery is Gods fullness that dwells in the Psalmist that is like a well of desires that are consuming him.
It can be explained that when we are saved we receive a kingdom in which God rules. This is a spiritual kingdom in which God has ordered in His eternal counsel by pre ordaining whatsoever comes to pass. Even tho we have an understanding of this mysterious consuming of our love and anger yet Gods communication on a universal level grows in us by increasing our very small experience of these overwhelming desires. When the Psalmist talks about Gods benefits he is saying that in this relationship of grace God has set up His kingdom in us so that we can speak with God according to Someone else work with His authority. We receive all that Christ has obtained and the marvel of grace is that it works in us by the principle of rewards and not punishment. The Psalmist is talking about a much more complex and mysterious reception of Christ benefits than the functioning of a human government ..ie any one who exercises authority.
The forgiveness of sins and healing of our diseases is more than just a response to our asking. But it has an eternal interaction with Gods ordering all things to fall out in our lives in which He rules through us. The Psalmist is saying that under grace, God has ordained that we are successful by experiencing Gods free access and reception of all that Christ has obtain. As He is faithful to prove Himself we become more and more successful as we are provided space and freedom to fail . We are united to this mysterious kingdom in which we react in this world through the lens of a kingdom that far surpasses the small view of the natural man. So with more vision and understanding we attempt things that only God can accomplish.
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