The Great Love of God

Psalm 103

The Great Love of God

Amen. Please be seated. As you do so, I'd invite you to take your Bibles and turn with me to Psalm 103. Now if you were here at the eleven o’clock service, you may be saying, “What possibly could he still have to say about Psalm 103 that he didn't already say this morning?” And, sadly, the answer is, “A lot, and I don't have time to say that much tonight!” Derek Kidner says of Psalm 103 that “admiring gratitude shines through every line of this hymn to the God of all grace.” I get jealous reading Derek Kidner. He just has such a way of turning a phrase, and he's so right about this passage. He goes on to say that “in the galaxy of the Psalter, these Psalms…” [and he's referring to Psalm 103 and its next-door neighbor, Psalm 104] “…in the galaxy…

Grace

Please open your Bibles to Psalm 103. We've been working our way through the Fourth Book of the Psalms, and this morning and evening we will look at the great 103rd Psalm, one of the most beloved Psalms in all of the Psalter. This morning we’ll look at it especially as a way of preparing for coming to the Lord's Table, and so in doing so we will look only at verses 8-18. Understanding and experiencing God's grace engenders gratitude in our hearts, and that leads us to thanksgiving and praise. The psalmist here is thankful for God's grace, but he wants to spell that out. He wants to be specific about that, and so if you’ll look at verses 8-18, you’ll notice that he is specific about the way that God has manifested His grace to him by designating seven things in…

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Psalm 103

The Great Love of God

Grace