Psalm 103:1-22 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.… When the photographer fits that iron rest at the back of your head and keeps you waiting ten minutes, while he gets his plates ready, why, your soul goes out of town, and nothing remains but that heavy look! When the work of art is finished, it is you, and yet it is not you. You were driven out by the touch of that iron. Another time, perhaps, your photograph is taken instantaneously, while you are in an animated attitude, while your whole soul is there; and your friends say, "Aye, that is your very self." I want you to bless the Lord with your soul at home as in that last portrait. I saw a book wherein the writer says in the preface, "We have given a portrait of our mother, but there was a kind of sacred twinkle about her eyes which no photograph could produce." Now, it is my heart's desire that you do praise God with that sacred twinkle, with that feature or faculty which is most characteristic of you. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: {A Psalm of David.} Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.WEB: Praise Yahweh, my soul! All that is within me, praise his holy name! |
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