EXOD238 In how many ways should a person hold himself to an accounting before God? I say that there are a multitude of ways in which to make such an accounting. Of these, I will point out thirty. They can clarify to a person what he owes God, if he will bring them to mind and undertake to reflect on them and remember them always. Contemplating God's grace in sparing one from harm. … 19. One should make an accounting with himself of how the Creator spares him from the mishaps and troubles of this world, [from] the various ailments to which human beings are subject, and from other ordeals and crises-- such as imprisonment, hunger, thirst, cold, heat, poisoning, attacks by wild animals, leprosy, insanity, failure of the various senses, and the like-- while being aware that he deserves these and is liable to them, because of past transgressions and sins before God; because of the severity of his transgression and rebelling against his God; for making light of His word; for neglecting to thank and praise Him; for leaving His service; and for failing to repent and confess before God, having prolonged his disobedience despite God's constant favors to him and ongoing kindness toward him. When the intelligent individual considers this and thinks of the afflictions with which God tries human beings in this world, as we have described; and how God spares him from them and he escapes all of them, though he deserves them, he will then be full of praise for God's goodness toward him and will hasten to repent and ask forgiveness for past transgressions and sins, which the Creator put out of sight for so long. He will hasten to attach himself to God’s service, for fear of these [afflictions], so as to avoid them, as it says: “If you listen carefully to Hashem your God... then I will not bring upon you all the sickness which I brought upon Egypt” (Shemos 15:26); “God will remove from you all sickness; He will not bring upon you any of the dreadful diseases of Egypt, which you know of” (Devarim 7:15).