Lessons from the Spring
A. J. Griffith. Psalm 104:30 You send forth your spirit, they are created: and you renew the face of the earth. 1. It bids us be content and patient, and believe that God has never forgotten any of our need; that His care and providence girdle our lives everywhere. 2. It fills us with joy and gladness, and bids us break away from the spell of dark moods and rejoice with all nature when "the mountains and hills break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field clap their hands." 3. It teaches us, by the objects of tenderness and beauty which it places everywhere before our eye, to make our own lives beautiful, and to excite nobler tastes and simpler emotions in the minds of our fellow-creatures. 4. But the one I would most impress upon you is reverence for the buds. Cherish your worthiest purposes and impulses as most sacred things. Do not think lightly of even your loftiest dreams and imaginings of a perfect and holy life. They will come to fruitage. They will be presently realities. Here on earth you will see many of them translated into fact, and you have a hope beyond earth. (A. J. Griffith.) Parallel Verses KJV: Thou sendest forth thy spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth. WEB: You send forth your Spirit: they are created. You renew the face of the ground.