How Shall I Make A Return To The LORD For All The Good HE Has Done For Me?

"How can I repay YAHWEH

for all HIS goodness to me?

I will lift up the cup of salvation

and call on the name of YAHWEH.

I will fulfill my vows to YAHWEH

in the presence of all HIS people.

It is painful to YAHWEH

to see the death of HIS faithful.

O YAHWEH, I am YOUR servant,

truly YOUR servant, YOUR handmaid's son.

YOU have freed me from my bonds.

I will offer YOU a thanksgiving sacrifice;

I will call on the name of YAHWEH."

-  Psalm 116:12-17

(This psalm is a simple prayer of thanks  to GOD, after an escape from death by sickness, accident or malice.  It became part of the Hallel or 'Hymn of Praise' [Psalm 113-118] sung at the Paschal supper.  Our LORD, therefore, went to death with the words on HIS lips.  'After singing psalms of praise, they went out to the Mount of Olives' [Matthew 26:30].  But from HIM, the words receive new life.  Unlike the psalmist, HE does not ask to escape the snare of bodily death, rather, HE defies and defeats it: 'it was impossible for HIM to be held by the power of death' [Acts 2:24].  The prayer of HIS human soul is for the glory of HIS risen body.  With the psalmist, we may recite the prayer after sickness, but with our LORD, we may gratefully use it on our deathbed, for 'He who raised JESUS CHRIST from among  the dead, will also give life to your mortal bodies [Romans 8:11].

We can pray with this psalm, when we have overcome mortal dangers or solved personal conflicts.  It is good for everything to remain in the sphere of the love of GOD, in whom we believe.)  

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