Benefits of salvation

Trust Maanda
Looking at the Unseen
PSALM 103:1-5 KJV
Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. (2) Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: [3] Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases; (4)Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; (5) Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
David persuaded his soul to bless the Lord, and not to forget His benefits.
A benefit is a helpful effect. It is a thing that improves a situation.
To benefit someone, is to be useful to that person.
An employment benefit is what an employee is provided with as an incentive or reward for his work.
One can get a benefit of a house or health insurance. It can be a holiday benefit or school fees.
A “benefit” is a helpful or good effect, an advantage, or something that improves a situation. To benefit means to be useful or to help.
David is saying, God also has benefits He provides His children with. God improves our situation every day.
David begins to list these benefits, and I have extracted five from the list of benefits in the Scripture above.
One of the benefits of salvation is the forgiveness of iniquities. God forgives our iniquities.
David knew how God forgave him of his sin when he took Uriah’s wife and caused Uriah to die in battle. He was forgiven and was thankful for that benefit.
Another benefit David mentions is the healing of our diseases.
Healing is a benefit we get from God. He heals all our diseases and infirmities. He was bruised for our iniquities and by the stripes on His body, we are healed.
Diseases and afflictions are all the results of sin, maybe not in your life, but in somebody’s life before you.
The devil is the author of sickness and afflictions. Before we had any devil, we had no sickness or afflictions. But, when satan came, he brought with him sickness and afflictions. When sins are forgiven, healing becomes a given.
That is why David says God forgives his iniquities and heals all his diseases.
Sickness is not a blessing. God does not get glory out of it. It may be an agent by which we can come back to God and be reconciled to Him.
But sicknesses are the results of the devil and of the fall. Our benefit is to be delivered from sin and its effects.
One of the benefits David lists is that, He redeems our lives from destruction. Many things would have destroyed us if God was not our protection.
Some of us would have long died if God was not giving us the benefit of protection. Some of us would have long lost our jobs and condemned to die by our circumstances. But God, Who is rich in mercy, does not allow us to be swallowed alive.
Above being preserved from destruction, God crowns our lives with tender mercies and lovingkindness as another benefit. He is ever merciful and tends to us with lovingkindness. We are pampered.
Another benefit is that He satisfies our mouth with good things. He fills our mouths with laughter. He fills our mouth with His Word. We speak It every day. We sing His praises daily. He even gives us good natural food. We are fed both physically and spiritually.
The last benefit is that He renews our youth like the eagle’s. We can never grow old in Christ.
We are always renewed daily as we feed on His Word. Even our physical bodies are nourished everyday. Our youth is renewed.
These benefits are given to us once and for all but we experience them daily. David in Psalm 68:19 says: “Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah.”
The benefits are not rationed out. They are lavishly given. God loads us with them daily.
Forgiveness of sins, healing of our bodies, redemption of life from destruction, the filling of our mouth with good things and renewing of our youth, are all lavishly given every day. We are loaded with them. God lavishes us.
So thankful was David about these blessings that he wondered what he would do to God in return for the benefits.
In Psalm 116:12 he asks: “What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?”
We must honour God for what He does for us. He has given us so many things we enjoy. We should worship Him and be thankful. We should render our services to Him, in appreciation of Him. We should present our bodies as a living sacrifice.
These benefits are available to all His people.