who redeems your life from the Pit and crowns you with loving devotion and compassion,
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction. By purchase and by power the Lord redeems us from the spiritual death into which we had fallen, and from the eternal death which would have been its consequence. Had not the death penalty of sin been removed, our forgiveness and healing would have been incomplete portions of salvation, fragments only, and but of small value, but the removal...
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; (c) For before we have remission of our sins, we are as dead men in the grave.
A man who talks to himself this way is no fool; he is rousing his own heart to praise. The soul must do the work, all of it, heart-work, not mere lip-service, and to praise rightly we must remember His mercies, for to forget them is to be both unjust and unkind.
AI summary
Commenting on Psalm 103:1-5