With Every Fibre of Our Being

Psalms 103:1–12

“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—He who forgives all your iniquities, and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion, who satisfies you with good things, so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s. The LORD executes righteousness and justice for all the oppressed. He revealed His ways to Moses, His deeds to the people of Israel. The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. He will not always accuse us, nor harbor His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins or repaid us according to our iniquities.”

God is love and He is forgiving and compassionate. He heals all physical infirmities as well as most importantly mends our relationship with His Holiness (v. 3) to which all wholeness comes from. Our LORD Jesus demonstrated this, in His infinite divinity, when He healed a paralytic, the Pharisees were aghast at His pronouncement of forgiveness: “Why does this man speak like this? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?” At once Jesus knew in His spirit that they were considering this within themselves. “Why do you question these things in your hearts? He asked. “Which is easier: to say to a paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your mat, and walk’? But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” He said to the paralytic (Mark 2:7–10).” Indeed, God heals us most completely, encompassing all of us, every fibre of our being, and so it is most apt as well for us to simply bless the LORD with our souls, and all that is within us, bless His holy name (v.1).