Our Scripture reading today is Ephesians 5:19, "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;"
The Apostle Paul encourages the Christians at Ephesus as well as you and me today to
meditate on psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. We are to have these things in our
heart. They can obviously be sung aloud too, but there should be plenty of times when
they are brought up in our mind. If we live in an attitude of praise and thanks, our lives
will be more peaceful. “Every hour, yea, every moment has brought a favor upon its wings. Look downward
and give thanks, for you are saved from hell; look on the right hand and give thanks, for you are enriched
with gracious gifts; look on the left hand and give thanks, for you are shielded from deadly ills; look above
you and give thanks, for heaven awaits you.” (Spurgeon)
God is worthy of our inward and outward praise!