The Best Benefits Package on the Market!

 Benefit: an act of kindness, help, aid and/or support.

When we go on job interviews, they give us details about the job - including information about the benefits package. In fact, sometimes we take jobs based primarily on the company's "great benefit package."

Some companies offer on-the-job training; a certain portion of your salary when you are out sick; pension plans; medical and dental plans... but in the back of your mind, you're always aware that the company might go out of business; it might get bought out; or the company might have to cut out some of those "great benefits" in order to keep their overhead down. 

But let me tell you about someone that offers EXCELLENT benefits and His benefits are here to stay! You can have total confidence in the fact that He won't go out of business; He will never have to cut back because of overhead and we will never have to worry about Him going bankrupt! 

Do you know why? Because He owns everything. He said: the silver is mine, the gold is mine, the Earth and everything that dwell therein (He is awesome, He is great and He is more than enough). 

Now, using the Book of Psalms, Chapter 103, let me share a few of HIS benefits:

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

• Who forgives all your iniquities; who heals all your diseases. 
• I can attest to that. Some years ago I needed a healing. I said, "I want to be healed, Lord because that's one of my benefits" and I received the healing that I needed
• Who redeems your life from the pit and corruption; who beautifies, dignifies and crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies
• Who satisfies your mouth (i.e. your necessity and desire at your personal age and situation) with good; so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's (strong, overcoming and SOARING)
• The Lord executes righteousness and justice (not just for me, but...) for all that are oppressed
• The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy
• He will not always chide or be contending; neither will he keep his anger for ever or hold a grudge
• As a father loves and pities his children, so the Lord loves and pities those that fear him (with reverence, worship and awe).
• For He knows our frame; He earnestly remembers and imprints (on His heart) that we are dust.

He gives us these benefits as an act of kindness - we don't have to be interviewed for them; we don't have to wait to be called back. The thing we need to do is accept Jesus in our lives as our personal savior. Then we begin working for Him and He has so much, SO MUCH more to offer... but best of all - eternal life!

With all that said, let the church say Amen... and AMEN!