“I say to myself, ‘Worship, praise, and love the Lord with everything you have and are—with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength. Adore him and don’t forget even one of the riches of grace he freely gives you.’” (pp Psalm 103:1-4)
Dear Jesus, we’re Cinderella with amnesia, AI without the memory part, dolphins with dementia. For we struggle to remember every good thing we have in you. We’d love to have a photographic grace-memory. Why, of all people, should we be grateful? Psalm 103 gives us a roadmap, catalogue, and warehouse of reasons to be irrepressibly grateful and worshipful.
You forgive all our sins. – When you declared, “It is finished,” you meant it. Though one Day we’ll be more like you, Jesus, we’ll never be more forgiven than we are today. Hallelujah!
You heal all our diseases. – Not always on our timetable, or in the exact way we pray, but you are always healing us. Jesus, thank you for securing perfect health for us forever—healing and wholeness for our bodies, mind, and spirit.
You redeem our lives from the “pit.” – What pits? The deep cavern of death and eternal judgment, but also nasty, infected wells of self-pity, resentment, and contempt; and road-kill-infested ditches of comparison, discontent, and ingratitude.
You crown us with love and compassion – Lord Jesus, you wore a crown of thorns that we might be crowned with your love and compassion—hallelujah! Your banner over us is now-and-only love. Your delight in us is full-throttle and non-stop. Your coming for us is more certain than our next breath, crazy traffic next week, and puppies that chew and need to be house-trained. We are loved and we are yours and we are grateful, Jesus. So Very Amen.
