Psalm 30:4-5 Sing to the LORD, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.… When people want to make things attractive in farming, they give exhibitions of their products. The women bring their very best butter; the men bring the noblest beets and vegetables of every kind; and from the orchard they bring the rarest fruits; and when you go into the room where all these things are displayed, they seem to you attractive and beautiful. It seems to me that this is the way a Christian Church ought to represent the Christian life. You ought to pile up your apples and pears and peaches and flowers and vegetables to show what is the positive fruit of religion. But many people in the Christian life do as farmers would do who would go to a show, and carry — one pigweed; another thistles; another dock; and another old, hard lumps of clay; and should arrange these worthless things along the sides of the room and mourn over them. Christians are too apt to represent the dark side of religion in their conversation and meetings. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.WEB: Sing praise to Yahweh, you saints of his. Give thanks to his holy name. |
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