Dear Friends,
Happy thanksgiving! But do you ever ask yourself at this time of the year, why am I not more thankful? Today’s devotional will give you the answer and the cure for that condition. God bless you.
Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Psalm 103:1-22

  Psalm 103:1-22   ESV

  Bless the Lord, O My Soul Of David.

  103 Bless the Lord, O my soul,
      and all that is within me,
      bless his holy name!
  ² Bless the Lord, O my soul,
      and forget not all his benefits,
  ³ who forgives all your iniquity,
      who heals all your diseases,
  ⁴ who redeems your life from the pit,
      who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy,
  ⁵ who satisfies you with good
      so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.

  ⁶ The Lord works righteousness
      and justice for all who are oppressed.
  ⁷ He made known his ways to Moses,
      his acts to the people of Israel.
  ⁸ The Lord is merciful and gracious,
      slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.
  ⁹ He will not always chide,
      nor will he keep his anger forever.
  ¹⁰ He does not deal with us according to our sins,
      nor repay us according to our iniquities.
  ¹¹ For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
      so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
  ¹² as far as the east is from the west,
      so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
  ¹³ As a father shows compassion to his children,
      so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him.
  ¹⁴ For he knows our frame;^[a]
      he remembers that we are dust.

  ¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass;
      he flourishes like a flower of the field;
  ¹⁶ for the wind passes over it, and it is gone,
      and its place knows it no more.
  ¹⁷ But the steadfast love of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him,
      and his righteousness to children’s children,
  ¹⁸ to those who keep his covenant
      and remember to do his commandments.
  ¹⁹ The Lord has established his throne in the heavens,
      and his kingdom rules over all.

  ²⁰ Bless the Lord, O you his angels,
      you mighty ones who do his word,
      obeying the voice of his word!
  ²¹ Bless the Lord, all his hosts,
      his ministers, who do his will!
  ²² Bless the Lord, all his works,
      in all places of his dominion.
  Bless the Lord, O my soul!

Psalm 103:1-22

“…God is not deficient on his part in furnishing us with abundant matter for praising him. It is our own ingratitude which hinders us from engaging in this exercise. In the first place, he teaches us that the reason why God deals with such liberality towards us is, that we may be led to celebrate his praise; but at the same time he condemns our inconstancy, which hurries us away to any other object rather than to God. How is it that we are so listless and drowsy in the performance of this the chief exercise of true religion, if it is not because our shameful and wicked forgetfulness buries in our hearts the innumerable benefits of God, which are openly manifest to heaven and earth?”
[John Calvin, Calvin’s Commentaries VI, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, n.d.), p. 126]