The Facets of Salvation

Eugene Peterson's book, Psalms: Prayers of the Heart, suggests that we look at Psalm 103 as a poem that expresses the experience of salvation. I read the Psalm and listed what I found as the facets of salvation (from Psalm 103)

The Lord:

• hears our prayers
• forgives our sins
• heals our deiseases
• redeems our lives from the Pit
• grants us steadfast love
• gives us mercy
• satisfies us
• stays with us as long as we live
• renews our youth
• lifts us up like an eagle
• works vidication
• brings justice
• makes himself known
• is gracious
• is slow to anger
• is filled with love
• sometimes does not accuse
• does not keep his anger forever
• does not deal with us according to our sin
• does not repay us for what we have done wrong
• has love that is larger than we can imagine
• separates us from our sin with a distance that we cannot express
• loves us as children
• is compassionate toward us
• remembers how we are made
• remembers that we are from dust
• has love that is eternal, and gives it to us