This is your daily reminder. God has not run
out of mercy, not for you, not today. Welcome
to the New Mercies Podcast. Welcome today, Saturday,
March the 21st. Thank you for finding us. Like,
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go. That's our intro. Psalm 103 is our reading
today. This is our bonus day since it is a Saturday.
This is just a little extra reading for you if
you are interested in diving in a little bit
to a psalm, a time in the Word where you get
to hear a little bit more of where we worship
the Lord. I love Psalm 103. It's David's day.
David wrote this psalm. It's his hallelujah chorus.
Now what that means is, here's the deal. I want
to encourage you in this. If you are ever feeling
down, If you're ever feeling like it's just hard
to worship, go read Psalm 103. It is a chorus
that you see yourself, you see the Lord, you
see who he is, what he's done. I like to think
of this psalm broken up in three ways. The first
part of it is Jesus, God's man. Then we see God's
mercy, and then we see God's might right there
at the end. It is a powerful psalm. It is what's
called an envelope psalm or an envelope psalm,
depending on how you say that word. What that
means is it starts and it ends in the exact same
way. Why? Because as you get through it to the
end, you can start right back over again. It
begins with one of the greatest phrases in the
Scripture, Bless the Lord, O my soul. It ends
with a phrase, Bless the Lord, O my soul. There
is so many blessings found within this psalm.
As David's writing it, yes, he is writing from
a situation and circumstances that he's celebrating.
He's experienced God in a great way. But here's
what it does for us. It points us to a time where
we can now look back at Christ and see what he's
done for us. We can see how he has taken over
and loved us so much and his steadfast love just
constantly endures. I just want to read a little
bit of this psalm to you today, just kind of
sporadically throughout to give you a little
bit of encouragement, give you a little bit of
a reason to shout today, a reason to lift. your
voice, a reason to praise him today. If you're
looking for ways to praise the Lord, he's got
to be there, right? I've said before that worship
happens when he shows up or whenever we recognize
that he's there. As soon as we recognize him,
worship flows. That's what David is trying to
help us see in his hallelujah chorus within this
psalm. Listen to a couple of these verses. Verse
number two says, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
forget not all his benefits, who forgives all
your iniquity and who heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns
you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies
you with good so that your youth is renewed like
the eagles. You can stop right there. You can
read those three verses, four verses over and
over and over again. He has blessed you. He has
given you a hope. He has renewed you. He's restored
you. The words that are in that text are so beautiful.
He forgets not all his benefits, who forgives
you, who heals you, who redeems you, who crowns
you. It is so good to think about this God that
does all of that for us. I want to encourage
you today. Read Psalm 103. Short episode today,
real short. But here's why. Because I want you
to read this text, jump into it, and just start
to write out the things that he's done for you.
Start to remember and recall the things in your
life that he has done for you. I promise you
this. If you read this over and over and over
again, you will find a hallelujah that may be
deep inside your heart that you didn't even realize
you had. deep sense of praise and of worship
because this God is so, so good and he loves
you so, so much. He points us to Christ. He points
us to his perfect plan. He points to how strong
he is, how mighty he is. I want to encourage
you today. Get soaked up in Psalm 103.