Mon âme, bénis l'Éternel!

Mon âme, bénis l'Éternel, et n'oublie aucun de ses bienfaits. C'est lui qui pardonne toutes tes iniquités,… qui te couronne de bonté et de compassions. Psaume 103. 2-4

Que mon cœur, Dieu de grâce, en paix jamais n'oublie
Aucun de tes bienfaits.
En ton Fils bien-aimé tu m'as donné la vie
Et le bonheur parfait.
 

Je le connais, Celui qui sauve et qui pardonne,
Dans sa grande bonté.
Des soins de son amour toujours il m'environne,
Dans sa fidélité.
 

Oui, jusqu'aux cheveux blancs, il nous soutient sans cesse,
Il affermit nos pas.
Il couronne nos jours de grâce et de tendresse
Et ne se lasse pas.
 

Toujours il se souvient que nous sommes poussière,
Lui qui nous a formés,
Lui qui fut élevé sur la croix du Calvaire
Et nous a tant aimés.
 

Bénissez le Seigneur, vous, célestes armées,
Vous, ses anges puissants!
Bénissez le Seigneur, toutes choses créées,
Dans de joyeux accents!
 

Notre âme te bénit là-haut dans la lumière,
Rédempteur merveilleux,
Toi qui règnes déjà à la droite du Père
Dans la splendeur des cieux.

P. Diedrichs (Poème inspiré du Psaume 103)


—————————————————


The Restoration Business

I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ. Philippians 3:8

Christ makes all things new.

Adam Minter is in the junk business. The son of a junkyard owner, he circles the globe researching junk. In his book Junkyard Planet, he chronicles the multibillion-dollar industry of waste recycling. He notes that entrepreneurs around the world devote themselves to locating discarded materials such as copper wire, dirty rags, and plastics and repurposing them to make something new and useful.

After the apostle Paul turned his life over to the Savior, he realized his own achievements and abilities amounted to little more than trash. But Jesus transformed it all into something new and useful. Paul said, “Whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ” (Phil. 3:7-8). Having been trained in Jewish religious law, he had been an angry and violent man toward those who followed Christ (Acts 9:1-2). After being transformed by Christ, the tangled wreckage of his angry past was transformed into the love of Christ for others (2 Cor. 5:14-17).

When we turn our lives over to Him, He makes us into something new

If you feel that your life is just an accumulation of junk, remember that God has always been in the restoration business. When we turn our lives over to Him, He makes us into something new and useful for Him and others.

Are you wondering how to become a new person? Romans 3:23 and 6:23 tell us that when we admit we are sinners and ask for God’s forgiveness, He gives us the free gift of eternal life that was paid for by the death and resurrection of Jesus. Talk to Him now about your need.