Our Daily Benefits

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

When Jesus first saves you, you’re so happy to be saved that you don’t think about much else.  You’re forgiven, you’re a child of God, you’re going to heaven when you die, and so forth.

Of course, there is so much more to being saved that these things.  But many Christians don’t know much more because they don’t get grounded in their faith through regularly attending a good Bible believing church.  They don’t study to find out all that comes with being saved.  They don’t grow.

Then there are those who really grow through discipleship, regular church service attendance, and personal study.  They do what the Bible says.  They are doers of the word and not hearers only.

Nevertheless, whether Christians have grown or whether they are still babes in Christ, one thing that is often overlooked is the truth of this verse we just read.

The God of our salvation daily loadeth us with benefits.  We often overlook our daily benefits.  There are three things here to which we want to pay careful attention.

Benefits are things that produce good or helpful results or promote well-being.  Provision, protection, peace, grace, mercy, love, answered prayer, fellowship, direction, sleep, health, wisdom, sound mind, strength, instruction, chastisement, understanding, and on and on the list goes.

Here’s what we know about our daily benefits:

How Come – because we are saved.  He is the God of our salvation.  He is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil, Lk 6:35.  He sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust, Matt 5:45.  But for us who are saved… we get many benefits.  He’s special to us.

How Much – He loadeth us.  We don’t get just a little bit.  We get at least as much as is sufficient.  With God there are always leftovers.  After feeding the 5,000, there were twelve baskets of fragments leftover.  After the sons of the prophets ate the loaves and ears of corn at Gilgal, there was food leftover, 2 Ki 4:42-44.  The widow’s oil was so abundant in 2 Ki 4::1-7 that, after the debt was paid, she and her sons could live of the rest.  The manna was always more than they could eat.  Paul wrote, “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound”, Rom 5:20.

How Often – Daily.  Here’s where we want to pay careful attention to the verse.  On your worst day, God is still loading you with benefits.  You just don’t see them because you’re looking at something else.

Hagar was looking at her hopeless condition, pouting about being kicked out, and contemplating the death of Ishmael.  God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water, Gen 21:19.  She was loaded.

Gehazi was looking at the host of the Syrians and God opened his eyes to see horses and chariots of fire, 2 Ki 6:15-17.  He and Elisha were loaded.

Everyday, no matter the day, God is loading us with benefits.  You can’t get distracted or discouraged about your circumstances and miss these benefits.  They are right there for you.

Conclusion: you don’t need to beg God for these benefits.  You need to open up your eyes and see them.  “Oh taste and see that the Lord is good”, Ps 34:8.