Who redeems your life from the pit
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits…Who redeems your life from the pit… Psalm 103:1-2, 4a
Have you been commanding your soul to bless the Lord? If you have, you have likely experienced some resistance, but as you stick with it, strength, victory, joy, and resolve will rise up within you.
While you bless the Lord, are you also focusing on His benefits? He has pardoned all your iniquities and cheap site levitra 50mg is the One who heals all your diseases. Both of these benefits were foretold by the prophet Isaiah. He wrote, “Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed” (Isaiah 53:4-5).
The Lord has also redeemed your life from the pit according to the psalmist. In Tuesday’s blog, I mentioned that the benefit, “Who pardons all your iniquities” was the prednisolone sans ordonnance republique tcheque most important benefit on the list, and therefore was mentioned first.
You may wonder why I believe that pardoning of sin is more important than having a life that is redeemed from the pit. Romans 5:12 states, “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men, because all sinned.” It was Adam’s sin that opened the door to sickness, death, and loss of fellowship with God. Without the complete forgiveness and remission of sin, neither you nor I would be able to enter eternal life with God when we died. The alternative—eternal separation from God—is the only available outcome for us unless we receive full forgiveness of our sin through the substitutionary work of Jesus Christ.
With this in mind, when David lists the fact that God redeems your life from the pit, this benefit hinges upon receiving the pharmacie en ligne allemagne cenforce pardon of sin. First accept His wonderful forgiveness of your sin through Jesus Christ, and then, when you take Jesus as your Lord, He absolutely redeems your life from eternal separation from God!
Who redeems your life from the pit…
What is the pit? One writer asked, “If life is a bowl of cherries, then why am I in the pits?” Is the pit as simple as this tongue-in-cheek comment suggests, merely a drag of a life? Or is it more specific, referring, perhaps, to what is commonly called the “pit of hell”?
The word pit in Hebrew is shachath and can mean a literal pit or, indeed, the pit of hell. It also can refer to destruction or can signify the grave (see http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H7845&t=KJV ).
Therefore, whether He is redeeming your life from hell, an early grave, or a pit of destruction poised to ensnare you for months or years, He redeems your life from the pit. It is my opinion that this benefit is good towards all of the above. The bottom line is: He redeems your life from the pit. Don’t forget it!
What exactly does the Lord do when He redeems something? The answer to this question caught me off guard.
Ga’al, the Hebrew for “redeem” means, first of all, “to redeem, act as kinsman-redeemer, avenge, revenge, ransom, do the part of a kinsman.” The source further points out that this word infers that the One who redeems “…act[s] as kinsman, [does] the part of next of kin, act[s] as kinsman redeemer” (http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H1350&t=KJV) .
When God redeems your life from the pit, He does so as your next of kin. He redeems your life because of His intimate sense of kinship with you. To Him, you are His next of kin, and He relates to you as such, with tender love, mercy, and concern.
At times, you can feel as if no one really cares, as if you are absolutely alone in life. Of course, as a believer, you know that God is for you and loves you, but that truth doesn’t necessarily hit home when you feel isolated, ignored, or invisible.
But when you read that God, as your next of kin, went to bat to redeem you—not just a nebulous “everyone”—can you picture Him, as I did, peering throughout history from before the beginning of time for the exact way and due season to redeem you—you, yourself? As I thought about this, I realized that I had tears in my eyes.
Perhaps you have no one in your life—either as next of kin or dear friend—willing to go to bat for you, to take up your cause, or to simply be there for you when you need a hand out of the pit. But here’s the good news: you do have a Redeemer. He, the God of the universe, has chosen to be your next of kin. Even if others forsake you, He is not ashamed of you. He, from the very foundation of the earth, carefully prepared the way for your life to be redeemed from destruction. And that’s worth remembering.
Hebrews 2:11 says it very clearly. “For both He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one Father; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren.”
Your God—your closest Kinsman—through the blood of His dear Son, has redeemed your life from the pit. Never forget it.
Blessings to you as you bask in this redemptive love of your closest Kinsman!
Dorothy