Forget the Benefits?

Michael E. Wood
November 26, 2011

Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases... Psalm 103:1-3

How amazing is our God and Father! The Lord Jesus Christ has provided for us the written words wherein He speaks to us as the Living Word by His mighty Spirit to remind us of those things that we possess in Him. As He calls us to responsibility, He also enables us to live by faith in the midst of the infirmities and corruptions of our flesh which includes the weakness of our mortal minds to grasp instantaneously with our redeemed imagination glimpses of His glory and beyond the present realities of the not yet.

I must confess that there are times
My grasp may often fail
To hold on to the words You speak
And show within the veil
Of Your very presence
As my soul clings to the dust
And often I forget the benefits
You now entrust,


To every single child of which
You purchased as Your own,
As through the blood of Christ
You grant forgiveness and atone
For every imperfection
By Your mercy and Your grace,
That we may look to You alone
And see Your smiling face;


Not only in the providence
Of which You send our way,
But more within the very words
You speak through lips of clay.
For as Your Mighty Spirit
Stirs our souls to see the good
By which You satisfy our need
Far more than understood.


We thus with thankful hearts
Will look to praise You more and more
For steadfast love and faithfulness
You give from heavens shore.