This post is given to acknowledge our Lord, our God and Saviour who bore all our sins, transgressions and iniquities and alone suffered death for all of them. Let the following reflect the heart of God toward those who may sin but who fear (or trust) Him. This post is given to edify all believers, even those who have difficulty understanding certain things about the nature of God.
Remember that 'All scripture (including everything in the OT under Moses and for Israel) is given by inspiration of God and it profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction and for instruction in righteousness' (2Tim 3:16). Some would have us believe that the following Psalm of David is conditional and not a benefit to all who trust the Lord. Everything in this Psalm relates to those who believe and trust in the Lord and we are all at different levels in that department. They are believers who have problems with sin, transgressions and with iniquity. But what we see concerning our Lord magnifies who He is and how he deals with those who trust Him. This Psalm is given by inspiration that we might learn of Him and that these words would have a place in our hearts forever.
Psalm 103:1-18
1 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 forgiveth all thine iniquities;
who healeth all thy diseases;
4 who redeemeth thy life from destruction;
who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
5 who satisfieth thy mouth with good things;
so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
6 The Lord executeth righteousness
and judgment for all that are oppressed.
7 He made known his ways unto Moses,
his acts unto the children of Israel.
8 The Lord is merciful and gracious,
slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
9 He will not always chide:
neither will he keep his anger for ever.
10 He hath not dealt with us after our sins;
nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.
11 For as the heaven is high above the earth,
so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
12 As far as the east is from the west,
so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth his children,
so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame;
he remembereth that we are dust.
15 As for man, his days are as grass:
as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
and the place thereof shall know it no more.
17 But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him,
and his righteousness unto children’s children;
18 to such as keep his covenant, (we are under a covenant of grace and not law, so there is no condemnation)
and to those that remember his commandments to do them.(recall to mind the commandments under the new covenant which are not grevious)
