Short Subjects

Forgetful Neglect

“Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits” (Psalm 103:2).

This is a simple, but appropriate, exhortation. Its being in the Bible suggests that those who receive his benefits need to remember and acknowledge them. Perhaps we find it easy to forget or neglect to give due thanks to God for his deliverance of us from the world. Perhaps some of us—due to day to day pressures—neglect to give thanks for his overruling care. But it is not right that we forget or neglect. “Fear [reverence] the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you” (1 Samuel 12:24).

—Gilbert Rice

And Finally

“Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and
thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee:
if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered”
(Psalm 40:5). \

Probably we apprehend but a small fraction of the blessings which come to us from God’s providence. Even of those we perceive, “they are more than can be numbered,” meditated on, and fully appreciated. Nevertheless, it is a privilege of each child of God to mark the blessings of God, reflect on them, and appreciate what they speak of God’s love and care and kindness to each of us individually. We are constantly debtors to God’s loving grace. As the evidence of this permeates our heart, the more will we be prepared to reflect to others a token of this kindliness from above. In this way these reflected favors may sweeten the lives of others, as ours have been sweetened.