Bless His Holy Name
Scripture: Psalm 103:1Devotional Series: By His Stripes
Teaching: By His Stripes pt. 1 (WED 2024-03-13) by Pastor Star R Scott
Why are we so quick to go to Google when there’s sickness or injury? Why do you go to Google? I can tell you, if you go to Google, they will explain the symptoms. They will tell you—you might want to check if there’s swelling in the brain, or hemorrhage in the brain, or whether or not the skull might be cracked, but they can’t fix it. But God… This is the God that we serve. He reveals Himself as the God that heals us, hallelujah! Amen?
So, here, that great revelation comes forth, and we as His people rejoice in all of His goodness. He is the Lord that heals us, hallelujah! Jehovah-rapha. In Psalm 103, it says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.” Well, that’s kind of implying that we’re not coming to Him in a “ho-hum” mentality. “With all our souls, with all our might” is how we’re told to seek Him; amen? "When you seek Me with that kind of a desire, I will be found of you;" amen? He will not turn us away.
“Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.” Hallelujah! Look what He’s done for us on that cross. Let me go a step further, look what He’s done for us before the Earth was spoken into existence and man ever walked the Earth. He was slain from before the foundations of the world for your healing and mine, for your redemption and mine, for your justification and mine, praise God! Hallelujah! God has an eternal plan for you, that you might be whole. He’s come that we might have life and have it more abundantly, praise God!
Aren’t you glad we don’t just have to fight our way in drudgery and pain through this life? Though there be drudgery and though there be pain, life for you and me does not end here. There’s a new body waiting for us. Hallelujah! If we don’t see it here, we will surely have it for eternity: “When we see Him, we will be like Him” (1 John 3:2), hallelujah! Oh, beloved, don’t think you know what’s going on, “…Eye has not seen, neither ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him” (1 Corinthians 2:9), praise God! We will see Him, and we will be like Him, and we will then be known—we will know as we have been known (1 Corinthians 13:12), praise God! All the questions get answered. I don’t even know that there will be lingering questions. I believe that we’ll see Him and old things will have truly passed away. There will be no sorrow; there will be no tears, hallelujah! Amen? O, come quickly, Lord Jesus! There’s not a thing in this life that can compare, even be imagined in this natural mind, as worth anything compared to seeing Him, and knowing Him, and being like Him. “…and so shall we ever be with the Lord” (1 Thessalonians 4:17), hallelujah!