MY TONGUE SHALL SPEAK OF THY WORD

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

MAY 22

 

Psalm 119:172

My tongue shall speak of thy word:

for all thy commandments are righteousness.

 
If all Christians had done so, how much less ignorance would there be in the world.
 
The tongue rightly used is our glory, but it is the disgrace of some, and of some professors too.
 
If anything is worth speaking of, it is God’s word.
 
It is the means of conversion, therefore speak of it to sinners.
 
It tends to edification, therefore speak of it to saints.
 
It is the instrument of restoration, therefore talk of it to backsliders.
 
It brings comfort to our own souls, let us therefore meditate upon it and then publish it for our own sake.
 
It honours God and exalts the Saviour; let us therefore out of love to God speak of his word.
 
If we speak of it at proper seasons, and with a right aim, it must do good, for it is an incorruptible seed which never rots under the clods.
 
It restrains the impetuous, soothes the sorrowful, directs the perplexed, restores the wanderer, and brings peace to the troubled.
 
It is bread to the hungry, light to the benighted, a staff to the pilgrim, a sword to the warrior, and a downy pillow to the way worn and weary.
 

My lips in thankful strains shall flow,

When taught by THEE thy truth to know;

My tongue shall spread that truth abroad,

The glorious gospel of my God.

 
James Smith