Today’s passage is Psalm 45. This psalm celebrates the bride and groom. The man is praised as having God’s grace on his lips. He fights on behalf of truth, humility and righteous. God is praised. The woman is praised. She wears gold. She needs to forget her father’s house and her people. Her sons will replace the fathers of her former people. The singer of the song says his song will perpetuate her memory.
Does your marriage glorify God?
Is your tongue like the pen of a skillful writer?
My tongue is more often like a hammer or a broken screwdriver or a bent shovel heaping up nonsense, failing to put the right twist to things or simply beating people instead of encouraging and being gentle and kind.
My actual writing isn’t much better.
I read Jesus’ words in the gospels and marvel at their simplicity. I
read Paul’s letters and wish I could understand God the way he does.
I read the psalms and know what a skillful tongue is capable of singing.
I just don’t have any of those skills. To write a QT is hard.
I wish I could tell my wife how I love her.
I think if I could do that, then I could tell God my feelings about him.
How do I put into words my gratitude for salvation?
Thank you doesn’t begin to do the job.
How grateful I am that he continues to show me my sins and lets me see myself more objectively, the best antidote to my absurd pride.
How happy I am that I have reasonable health and a job.
How grateful I am to be a member of a church that teaches me and challenges my faith and trains me to spread the word of God and his love, so profound, so encompassing that without it I couldn’t breathe or think or feel at all.
How do I thank Jesus for the will to keep going every day and reflect on his will which took him to the cross for me?
Application: pray for God’s tongue tomorrow to bring his love to a suffering brother
Lord, curb my unruly tongue and let your words sing in my mouth to your everlasting glory!
