Psalm 40:9 “I have told the glad news of deliverance in the great congregation; behold, I have not restrained my lips, as you know, O Lord.”
What do you find people people talking about around the church these days? They say people talk about what’s most important to them. Pslam 40:9-10 shows us that the impulse of David’s heart was to talk about the ‘glad news of deliverance.’ It not only please the Lord that we should make much of his deliverance in our conversation, but it is the natural thing for those who David calls ‘lovers of salvation.’ We should be like the child who can’t wait to tell his closest friends about the latest gift he has recieved from his father or the man who happily recounts for a reporter how he was snatched from his burning home by a heroic rescuer. David says, “I have not hidden your deliverance within my heart; I have spoken of your faithfulness and your salvation” (v. 10). I believe a necessary first step for the church in recovering her zeal for evangelism is learning to celebrate our salvation in conversation one with another. If we only see our salvation as a thing of the past with little relvance for today or tomorrow it will only surface in our conversations from time to time. But if we see salvation as something that we are working out daily in cooperation with one another (Phil. 2:12) we will have something to celebrate every day. Oh that God’s people would talk more of God in the minutes following the worship service. I resolve to make a greater effort to turn conversations God-ward as I mingle after the service. Instead of passing pleasantries I will say, “Great is the Lord!”
