Psalms 40:9-10. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
What a preacher Christ was! How he told out what he had learned of the Father! How fully, how constantly was he the witness for God to men! Some of us following far behind, with unequal footsteps, nevertheless can say "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation." It is a great comfort in feeling if you are called to present the gospel that as far as you know, you have preached it and have kept back nothing that God has taught to you. It will be a thousand mercies if any one of God’s servants shall be found clear at the last. When we have done all, we are unprofitable servants, we have only done what it was our duty to do; but still there is a sweet peace about fidelity when in the integrity of one’s heart we can say that we have not refrained our lips as God knows. Then comes the prayer -
Psalms 40:9-10. I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest. I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.
What a preacher Christ was! How he told out what he had learned of the Father! How fully, how constantly was he the witness for God to men! Some of us following far behind, with unequal footsteps, nevertheless can say "I have preached righteousness in the great congregation." It is a great comfort in feeling if you are called to present the gospel that as far as you know, you have preached it and have kept back nothing that God has taught to you. It will be a thousand mercies if any one of God’s servants shall be found clear at the last. When we have done all, we are unprofitable servants, we have only done what it was our duty to do; but still there is a sweet peace about fidelity when in the integrity of one’s heart we can say that we have not refrained our lips as God knows. Then comes the prayer -