Happy birthday to the last of our brood, 18 tomorrow, a grown-up. What a sweet journey we have had with him. I am so grateful. And in the spirit of birthdayhood, I look at one of my favorite Psalms: 103. What an amazing God this speaks of, who forgives all our iniquity, heals all our diseases, redeems our lives from the pit, crowns us with steadfast love and mercy, satisfies us with good, so that our youth is renewed like the eagle's. How can he, a just and perfectly holy creator God, do all of this for us, who deserve only wrath?
Because of the "one act of righteousness" (Romans 5:18) that Jesus Christ performed on our behalf: his death consuming God's wrath against us. That's it. That was God's plan all along, even as David penned Psalm 103. There was no other way for our forgiveness and pit-rescue to be accomplished.
Oh, let us "bless the Lord [Jesus Christ], and all that is within us, bless his holy name" this day.
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