What shall I render unto the LORDfor all his benefits toward me?
The question asks what can be given back to the Lord for all His goodness, blessings, deliverances, support in trial, guidance and refreshment. Its answer is to receive salvation, call upon His name, and keep vows to Him openly before His people. To render to Him is joyful and continual praise for His loving-kindness, speaking of His righteousness and making His works known. His matchless mercy can never be repaid, so the fitting return is willing obedience and grateful service that honors Him. Those redeemed by Christ belong to God as His servants, and show their gratitude by glorifying Him in body and spirit, by returning to Him a portion of what He has lent them for His work, and by using time, strength, influence and means to save souls.
Grateful Praise Declared
The question is what can be given back to the Lord for all the good received from Him, for all His benefits and goodness toward the receiver. Those benefits include blessings, deliverances, support in trial, guidance through dark times, and refreshment in weariness, which are signs of His loving care and call for acknowledgment and gratitude. The gratitude is especially for His deliverance, and the question stands among calls to praise God, to make His deeds known, and to praise and honor Him so that His name is remembered. With verses 13-14 it points to thanksgiving, calling on the Lord, and keeping vows as the response.
Remembering what God has done prompts gratitude and trust and open declaration of gratitude for His goodness. The least blessing personally received encourages faith more than accounts of others' experiences. Keeping every gift fresh in memory strengthens faith to claim and receive more.
The answer given with the question is to receive salvation, to take the cup of salvation, to call on the name of the Lord, and to fulfill vows publicly in the presence of His people and among them. It is asked by a heart filled with gratitude and praise to His holy name when the Lord is very near.
To render to the Lord is joyful, continual, thankful praise for His loving-kindness and help. The redeemed soul sings to Him with greatly rejoicing lips and talks of His righteousness all the day long. That praise makes His doings known and sings His praises, praising and honoring Him so His name is remembered.
Grateful Service Rendered
God's matchless mercy cannot be repaid, and the fitting return for all His benefits is willing obedience and grateful service that shows loyalty to God and brings honor to the Redeemer. Those redeemed and purchased by Christ's blood are bound to glorify God in body and spirit, so gratitude leads them to ask what the Lord would have them do and what He requires. That asking becomes free service to Jesus and a desire to obey and glorify God, delighting in His law and striving to live by its perfect standard, with love of sin and self subdued.
The believer answers the continual question of what to render for infinite love and mercy by belonging to God as His servant, freed from bondage because He has loosed those bonds. It is the constant question of one who looks to Christ and is strengthened and uplifted, who by beholding Him is changed into the same image and cherishes the same spirit. Such a one is freed from sullenness and gloom, has an experience clear as sunlight, is filled with joy and gladness by the consciousness that Jesus loves him, and reflects the divine image. That life is lived with implicit trust, humble walking with God, and diligent, earnest service that bears much fruit.
Acknowledging dependence on God means returning to Him a portion of the bounty He has bestowed, laying by in store at a stated time each week as prospered in proportion to His blessing for the advancement of His work. All that is possessed is lent by God to be used in His service, and faithfully remembering this uproots selfishness, while people are accountable for how they use what belongs to Him. Selfish use withholds what is due from God and from those in need. Those who forget they were bought with the blood of His only begotten Son and are indebted to Him for every breath and every dollar, and who use His means in building houses and adding acre to acre solely for self-gratification and expensive tastes, rob His needy children of the necessaries of life, and a just God will call them to account for misapplying His means.
Gratitude is shown through responsible service that feels the weight of obligation to the Creator, seeks to save souls perishing in sin, and works for the Master now. It brings tithes and offerings into the storehouse and uses time, strength, influence, and property to advance God's work by representing God as the light of the world whose good works lead men to glorify the Father and by carrying truth into new territory with the warning message to those in darkness, with the church held responsible if it fails. Those who have withheld tithe are to reckon what is owed, make restitution, and repent, and God forgives the transgression of those who do so. God's abundant temporal care and continuing mercies call for acknowledgment through gifts and offerings that support His work, putting God first rather than reserving the best thoughts, efforts, and offerings for earthly friends, and even a small gift is acceptable when it is the best a person can give and is offered with love and sincerity. The blessings and money saved through health reform likewise call for gratitude expressed by consecrating the savings to God's cause rather than using them for personal possessions and display.
The sentiment of the question was shown when Mary anointed Jesus in Bethany, filled with pure, holy love and deep gratitude for all He had done for her family, especially restoring her brother Lazarus from the grave. Longing without reasoning to render something to the Lord, she poured out the costly alabaster box of ointment long reserved for His head and feet as a poor expression and gift of love. Christ delighted in her earnest desire to do His will and accepted the wealth of pure affection that the disciples could not understand, appreciating it as an expression of her love, and her heart was filled with perfect peace and happiness.
The question asks what can be given back to the Lord for all His goodness, blessings, deliverances, support in trial, guidance and refreshment. Its answer is to receive salvation, call upon His name, and keep vows to Him openly before His people. To render to Him is joyful and continual praise for His loving-kindness, speaking of His righteousness and making His works known. His matchless mercy can never be repaid, so the fitting return is willing obedience and grateful service that honors Him. Those redeemed by Christ belong to God as His servants, and show their gratitude by glorifying Him in body and spirit, by returning to Him a portion of what He has lent them for His work, and by using time, strength, influence and means to save souls.
Grateful Praise Declared
The question is what can be given back to the Lord for all the good received from Him, for all His benefits and goodness toward the receiver. Those benefits include blessings, deliverances, support in trial, guidance through dark times, and refreshment in weariness, which are signs of His loving care and call for acknowledgment and gratitude. The gratitude is especially for His deliverance, and the question stands among calls to praise God, to make His deeds known, and to praise and honor Him so that His name is remembered. With verses 13-14 it points to thanksgiving, calling on the Lord, and keeping vows as the response.
Remembering what God has done prompts gratitude and trust and open declaration of gratitude for His goodness. The least blessing personally received encourages faith more than accounts of others' experiences. Keeping every gift fresh in memory strengthens faith to claim and receive more.
The answer given with the question is to receive salvation, to take the cup of salvation, to call on the name of the Lord, and to fulfill vows publicly in the presence of His people and among them. It is asked by a heart filled with gratitude and praise to His holy name when the Lord is very near.
To render to the Lord is joyful, continual, thankful praise for His loving-kindness and help. The redeemed soul sings to Him with greatly rejoicing lips and talks of His righteousness all the day long. That praise makes His doings known and sings His praises, praising and honoring Him so His name is remembered.
Grateful Service Rendered
God's matchless mercy cannot be repaid, and the fitting return for all His benefits is willing obedience and grateful service that shows loyalty to God and brings honor to the Redeemer. Those redeemed and purchased by Christ's blood are bound to glorify God in body and spirit, so gratitude leads them to ask what the Lord would have them do and what He requires. That asking becomes free service to Jesus and a desire to obey and glorify God, delighting in His law and striving to live by its perfect standard, with love of sin and self subdued.
The believer answers the continual question of what to render for infinite love and mercy by belonging to God as His servant, freed from bondage because He has loosed those bonds. It is the constant question of one who looks to Christ and is strengthened and uplifted, who by beholding Him is changed into the same image and cherishes the same spirit. Such a one is freed from sullenness and gloom, has an experience clear as sunlight, is filled with joy and gladness by the consciousness that Jesus loves him, and reflects the divine image. That life is lived with implicit trust, humble walking with God, and diligent, earnest service that bears much fruit.
Acknowledging dependence on God means returning to Him a portion of the bounty He has bestowed, laying by in store at a stated time each week as prospered in proportion to His blessing for the advancement of His work. All that is possessed is lent by God to be used in His service, and faithfully remembering this uproots selfishness, while people are accountable for how they use what belongs to Him. Selfish use withholds what is due from God and from those in need. Those who forget they were bought with the blood of His only begotten Son and are indebted to Him for every breath and every dollar, and who use His means in building houses and adding acre to acre solely for self-gratification and expensive tastes, rob His needy children of the necessaries of life, and a just God will call them to account for misapplying His means.
Gratitude is shown through responsible service that feels the weight of obligation to the Creator, seeks to save souls perishing in sin, and works for the Master now. It brings tithes and offerings into the storehouse and uses time, strength, influence, and property to advance God's work by representing God as the light of the world whose good works lead men to glorify the Father and by carrying truth into new territory with the warning message to those in darkness, with the church held responsible if it fails. Those who have withheld tithe are to reckon what is owed, make restitution, and repent, and God forgives the transgression of those who do so. God's abundant temporal care and continuing mercies call for acknowledgment through gifts and offerings that support His work, putting God first rather than reserving the best thoughts, efforts, and offerings for earthly friends, and even a small gift is acceptable when it is the best a person can give and is offered with love and sincerity. The blessings and money saved through health reform likewise call for gratitude expressed by consecrating the savings to God's cause rather than using them for personal possessions and display.
The sentiment of the question was shown when Mary anointed Jesus in Bethany, filled with pure, holy love and deep gratitude for all He had done for her family, especially restoring her brother Lazarus from the grave. Longing without reasoning to render something to the Lord, she poured out the costly alabaster box of ointment long reserved for His head and feet as a poor expression and gift of love. Christ delighted in her earnest desire to do His will and accepted the wealth of pure affection that the disciples could not understand, appreciating it as an expression of her love, and her heart was filled with perfect peace and happiness.