Count Your Many Blessings – The Saturday Morning Post by Pastor Ted Stahl

Good Morning! Have you counted your blessings from God so far this morning. If you’re alive and breathing, that’s one. If you are reading this post, that’s another (I hope). Did you have breakfast? Count your life a blessing from God. Both the good things and the bad things – real life is a blessing from God.

In Psalm 103, verses 1 and 2, David tells himself: “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…”

What’s David doing? He’s telling his soul to thank God for everything with all that he has in himself. In doing so, he list twelve actions in which God blesses us…

1: He forgives our iniquities (vs 3).

2: He heals our diseases (vs 3).

3: He saves us from going to Hell (vs 4).

4: He shows us His loving kindness, and tender mercies (vs 4).

5: He feeds us (vs 5).

6: He gives us justice (vs 6).

7: He gives us His Word – the Bible (vs 7).

8: He is patient with us (vs 8-11).

9: He pardons our sins (vs 12).

10: He loves us like a Father (vs 13).

11: He knows us better than we know ourselves (vs 14-16).

12: And knowing all about us, He still uses us to do His will (vs 17-22)

God gives us life, and that more abundantly. He gives us the good times, and what we perceive as the bad times. The perceived bad times are for His purpose and glory: they are for our good. Take a look at your life, it may not be as bad as it seems. “Count your many blessings, see what God has done!”

Peace. (Psalm 104)