"Loaded" Down

"Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Psalm 68:19

Today is a beautiful, sunny day and I feel really blessed. Then I realized that it is not the sun, the happenings of the day or even the love shown by or to others that should "pick me up". It is the blessings of God, which are new every morning, that fill me with joy.

This morning we were reading in Spurgeon's Morning and Evening (Jan 27 morning) about those benefits. Here are a few he mentioned: "There is a fulness of blessings of every sort and shape; a fulness of grace to pardon (save from our sin), of grace to regenerate (give us new life), of grace to sanctify (set us apart from sin to serve God), of grace to preserve (save us for all eternity), and of grace to perfect (or mature)." (The parentheses are mine.)

Here's more from The Treasury of David:

"God's benefits are not few nor light, they are loads; neither are they intermittent, but they come "daily;" nor are they confined to one or two favourites, for all Israel can say, "he loadeth us with benefits." Delitzsch reads it, "He daily bears our burden;" and Alexander, "Whoever lays a load upon us, the Mighty God is our salvation." If he himself burdens us with sorrow, he gives strength sufficient to sustain it; and if others endeavor to oppress us, there is no cause for fear, for the Lord will come to the rescue of his people. Happy nation, to be subdued by a King whose yoke is easy, and who secures his people from all fear of foreign burdens which their foes might try to force upon them. "

That last part sounds like the comfort we need in today's world!