Psalms 88:10. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
"Shall the dead arise, and praise thee?" Not in this life, though the godly will praise the Lord in the world to come. But now, when a Christian man dies, God loses a chorister from the choirs of earth, there is one the less to sing his praises here; and the psalmist therefore pleads: "Lord, if I live, thou canst show thy wonders to me; but wilt thou show thy wonders to the dead? If I am alive, I can praise thee; but shall the dead arise, and praise thee?"
Psalms 88:10. Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
"Shall the dead arise, and praise thee?" Not in this life, though the godly will praise the Lord in the world to come. But now, when a Christian man dies, God loses a chorister from the choirs of earth, there is one the less to sing his praises here; and the psalmist therefore pleads: "Lord, if I live, thou canst show thy wonders to me; but wilt thou show thy wonders to the dead? If I am alive, I can praise thee; but shall the dead arise, and praise thee?"