Usually when you think of blessing, you think of God’s blessing His creature man with blessings. He is the God from whom all blessings flow. He is the One who gives them, and we the ones who receive. But here the Psalmist David is exhorting his own soul to bless God (to give God glory and thankful praise) by listing to himself what God had done for him during his life. I pray that each of us would give this consideration; that this is what God is looking for from us, at whatever stage of life that we are in. A person who knows the Lord ought to praise the Lord, if he or she can do nothing else for Him. Psalm 147: 2 says praise is comely; that is, that it is beautiful in the mind and sight of God. David is teaching us here that all that is within us ought to bless His holy name. In verses 1-10 we find the blessings of life and eternal life listed for us here. In verses 11-14, we find the blessings of God’s mercy listed. In verses 15-18 we find the awful shortness of man’s life contrasted with the wonderful unending length of God’s blessings upon those who are true believers.
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...