Unlike the last Psalm (and many others), this one gets straight into the worship! He commands his soul to praise the Lord. Our inmost being is to praise God. We were created to praise the Lord. And a good part of the reason we do this is for all the good things God does for. Sometimes people talk about praising God for who He is, not for what He does for us. This sounds very pious, but is actually unbiblical nonsense. The Bible is full of commands and instances of people praising God for what He has done for us. In fact God reveals who He is often by what He does for us.
We then get some of the benefits. First He forgives our sins. We saw in Romans how absolutely crucial and foundational this is. He heals our diseases. There is also a link between our forgiveness and healing. Now we are wrong if we try to draw an absolute law between all sickness and sin, but there is undoubtedly a link.
He redeems our life from the pit, and instead gives us love and compassion. He gives us good things and renews out strength. This applies now, as well as after Christ's return. We should look to know and enjoy God's love and compassion today. Sometimes circumstances make this difficult, but whatever the situation we should be looking for where God's love and compassion are, we should expect things to be different.
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