"Praise the Lord, my soul,
    and forget not all his benefits—" Psalm 103:2


There has certainly been a lot of discussion about insurance these days.   And when it comes to insurance one of the important questions is about the benefits and yes the price for those benefits.
For most of us there is great uncertainty about the benefits and the price of those benefits in the coming years.

But when it comes to God and a relationship with God the benefits are "out of this world"  and you can't beat the price. there not free for they cost Jesus his life but for us the cost is as simple as our faith and trust.  That sounds like a wonderful deal especially when you consider the benefits.   However I think we all take the benefits for granted or at least we forget the benefits so let the psalmist in psalm 103 remind us once again of the benefits or our faith.

To summarize the list:   God forgives sins, heals diseases, redeems our life from the pit, crowns you with love and compassion,  satisfies your desires,  works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed, makes know the ways of Moses and the deeds of Israel
Those are just the benefits found in the first seven verses.  Note that I highlighted the verbs to demonstrate God's action but the benefits go on. 

The rest of the chapter speak to his compassion, love and the slowness of his anger.  The benefits continue with love being shown to those who don't deserve it.  So great is his compassion and love he removes or sins as far as the east is from the west.  He has the compassion of a father for his children.  He has everlasting love toward those who fear him and those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.    And if we think that these benefits only last for a short time we need only be reminded that the Lord has established his throne in heaven and his kingdom rules over all.  In other words  his word is final no one can come along and change the rules.  God's benefits cannot be revoked!   

I don't know about you but those benefits far exceed anything that Flo can offer when it comes to insurance and there is no better bundling of those discounts.  In short its an unbelievable deal.

 Its too good to be true but if we believe in his benefits we will surely do a lot of praising!  Its not surprising that in this psalm David starts the Psalm saying,  "Praise the Lord, O my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.  Praise the Lord O my soul, and forget not all his benefits-"  Actually David proclaims, "Praise the Lord" six times!

To ponder:   How much praising have you been doing lately?   If your low in the praise department could it possibly be that you've forgotten or at least taken for granted God's wonderful benefit plan?   If that's you I invite you to reread psalm 103 and marvel at God's great love