Speaking Personally — Stuart Briscoe

David’s Personal Testimony in Psalm 34

This is a delightful autobiographical song where David sits down and does some personal speaking. What he's really saying is that, why don't you just stop a minute folks, I want to tell you something.

I want to share with you some of the things that have really been happening in my life. There's no question about it, that one of the great encouragements, one of the great aids to spiritual experience is to have somebody who has a valid experience take the time out to share it with somebody else.

And I believe that the Scriptures are very careful to point this out. Now on other occasions we've looked into the life of David and on some occasions we have seen that the Bible has been excruciatingly honest about David's experience and has certainly told us where he went wrong in no uncertain terms.

But in this particular passage of Scripture we have another excruciatingly honest passage of Scripture but this time it is David opening his own heart and saying, now look, this is how it is, this is what God did for me and this is the way in which he operated in my life.

Now it doesn't necessarily say that he's going to do the identical thing for you. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everything that he did for me, says David, he's going to do for you. But these are the principles of his operation, this is how he works, this is how he goes about it.

So see what he's done, learn the principles and then just find out if it could not be that your own life would be enriched if you begin to see the sort of things that God can do with just ordinary people.

Well, with that in mind, let's look and see what David says. First of all, he speaks personally about some personal experiences. Then secondly, he speaks personally with some passionate exhortations. I'm sure you noticed on three occasions in this psalm there's an exhortation that begins with the word, O, in verse 3, O magnify the Lord.

Personal Experiences, Passionate Exhortations, and Positive Intentions

Now when you come out with that word, O, there's some passion in the thing. He's really encouraging people to do something and he's saying it with real intensity. O, magnify the Lord with me. And then verse 8, O, taste and see that the Lord is good.

And then in verse 9, O, reverence the Lord, ye his saints. And I'm so glad that he doesn't just relate personal experience, but he then gets into some passionate exhortation. You know, sometimes when people give a testimony, all they do is relate their own personal experience.

They never get around to exhorting somebody else to do something about what God can really be accomplishing in their lives. And then thirdly, he comes up and speaks personally about some positive intentions.

And there are two that we'll notice, although you could find others in this psalm. And one positive intention that he has is this. This is a personal commitment, a very, very positive statement he's making.

I will bless the Lord at all times. That's dogmatic, that's straightforward. This is a very positive intention. And the second one, I will teach the truth. Verse 11, Come ye children, hearken unto me, I will teach you.

And here he's coming up with some very definite, very positive, totally committed statements. And I would suggest to you that as we look into this psalm, it may well be that we can examine our own personal experience and find out how well we articulate it.

That we can also find out to what extent we are exhorting other people in a positive way to enrich their own spiritual experience. And then perhaps we can come up and discover what positive intentions we really do have, as far as our spiritual life is concerned.

Seeking the Lord With All Your Heart

All right, now what was the personal experience that he enjoyed? First of all, in verse 4, he speaks personally, and this is what he says. I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and he delivered me from all my fears.

Now notice the three basic things that he says. I sought him, he heard me, and he delivered me. This is a statement of personal experience. I believe that everybody is looking for something. Everybody is seeking something.

Not everybody knows what he's seeking. Quite a few people know what they're seeking, but they're not quite sure which way to look. And not a few people are seeking the Lord, but they don't really know how to find him.

Now, there's a very simple, basic principle of Scripture, which is this. The Lord says this. If you seek me, you will find me. But here's the operative word. If you seek me with all your heart. Now, you will come across some people who say, Oh, I was looking for the Lord, I was seeking the Lord, I never found him, he's not there.

But if you check very carefully on what it was they were doing, you will find that they didn't really apply the God-given principle to their own experience. If you seek me, you will find me, provided you seek me with all your heart.

Now, your heart involves various areas of your personality. It involves your mind. I believe that anybody who's really going to have an experience of the Lord has got to be intelligent about it. And if he is going to seek with all his heart, that is going to involve the use of some grey matter between his ears.

He is going to have to get some intelligent appreciation of intelligent truth. And I'll tell you one way that he's going to do it. You will get intelligent appreciation of intelligent truth if you intelligently study the revelation of truth that comes from God, contained in the Word of God.

Now, I would suggest to you that a number of people speak quite happily about seeking the Lord, but they are not using their whole hearts because they never use their minds. They have a vague emotional feeling.

They have a vague psychological sense of need. But they are not going about it the right way because they have not been feeding their minds with the truth as it is in Jesus, as it is revealed in Scripture.

And therefore, they don't really come up with any conclusion because they are seeking vaguely in a thousand and one different areas and opening their mind and experience to as much error as they're opening themselves to truth.

You've got to start looking in the right general direction if you're going to find what it is you're hoping to find. If you seek me, you'll find me. If you seek me with all your heart, that means using your minds.

But then, the second part of your heart is that you have emotions. You will find God if you really seek him with all your heart, with all the emotional intensity of which you are capable. I don't know if you have this saying over here in the States, but in England we use the expression, Saint's heart never won fair lady.

Do you have that expression over here? I don't know. Maybe you're not sure. But we have it in England anyway. Saint's heart never won fair lady. Now, sometimes you'll find some gentlemen in England, not in America as far as I can see, who don't really seem to be too sure as to which way they ought to go about in a very gentlemanly way acquiring to themselves a wife.

And so they're rather faint-hearted about the whole thing. And they never really seem to get around to it. I can think of some friends of mine back home in England, very eligible bachelors. And there's only one basic reason as far as I can see.

When it really came to winning a fair lady, they were chicken. Or sensible. I'm not sure which, but... But that's the position. Now, I would suggest that this kind of approach is also applicable to the spiritual life.

I would say this. Saint's heart never won an exciting Christ. You see, a lot of people never really find the Lord in terms of personal experience for one very simple reason. There is no emotional intensity about their search.

They aren't really, with all the passion of their being, saying this. There is ultimate truth, and I've got to find it, and I'm going to intelligently look into it, and I'm going to do it with such intensity that I'm going to give the impression that I really believe the truth is there to be found, and it is so important to me that I'm going to put everything else secondary.

I'm going to find the truth. Now, it is not surprising that a lot of people never find the Lord for the very simple reason they never seek Him with all their heart. But the third part of your heart is your will.

You see, it is possible with tremendous emotional intensity and tremendous intellectual integrity to search for truth and then suddenly find it and say, oh, wow, there it is, God. And God is God and will settle for nothing less than being God.

And suddenly you're confronted with a challenge which is this. Will I get rid of my puny little idols and allow God to be my God? And this is not a challenge to your intellect or to your emotions. It is a challenge, a direct challenge to your will.

Now, God says quite simply, if you seek me, you'll find me, if you seek me with all your heart. So with a definite, intelligent search of revealed truth, with unbelievable emotional intensity because you believe it is so important, and with the willingness to act upon what you know, that is how you begin to seek.

And let me tell you something. The principle, as we find it from David's personal experience, is simply this. If you seek with all your heart, God will lean out of heaven, cup His great almighty hands around His almighty ears and say, OK, I'm listening, what do you want?

Now listen to his personal experience again in light of this. I sought the Lord. He heard me and rolled up His mighty sleeves, and notice what he said, and delivered me from all my fears. Now, I have underlined, or circled rather in my Bible, all the tremendously superlative statements of this psalm.

You'll find the word all on a number of occasions. I've ringed it. He delivered me from all my fears. That's a personal testimony. There is a personal experience. I have no grounds for rejecting it. I have no grounds for refuting it.

This is an honest man making an honest statement, and he is outlining a biblical, spiritual, eternal truth. Now, the whole point of it is this. If God can do that sort of thing for him, He can do that sort of thing for you, if you'll go about it the same way.

Seek Him, He'll hear, and deliver you from all your fears. Now, do you have that kind of personal experience? Now, his second personal experience is this. Verse 6. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard, and saved him out of, notice the little word here, all his troubles.

Now, that doesn't say that he got rid of all his troubles. Sometimes you get this impression from preachers. My dear friends, I want to present to you the Lord Jesus. Come to Him, and He will take all your troubles away, and the heaven above will be softer blue, and earth around will be sweeter green, and all this little world of yours will be absolutely hunky-dory.

No, that isn't what it says. What it says is this. If you seek the Lord, and cry unto Him, and lay hold of Him, and ask Him to do what you know intelligently from Scripture He has promised to do, He will do it.

And one of the things that He will do will be this. He will move into your life in the area of all your trouble, and He won't take your trouble away. In actual fact, He'll give you some new ones. But He will save you in the midst of them all.

And it is one thing to think that God is going to take away your trouble, and another thing to know that God is going to save you in the midst of your trouble. You'll get rid of all your troubles when you get to heaven, but before you get to heaven you've got to learn how to behave in heaven, and that's why you're down on earth.

And down on earth you're given all kinds of difficulties and all kinds of problems, so that you can begin to discover the sort of God He is in the midst of all your problems, and as you cry unto Him and lay hold of Him and say, Oh God, do what you promised, you will then begin to discover how real He really is.

But notice that there's one little phrase that is very important here. This poor man, was he a poor man? No, he was the king. It was unbelievable how many resources he had available to him. It was unbelievable the inheritance that was his.

It was unbelievable the promises that God had made to him, and it was unbelievable all the things that stretched ahead. The talent he had in every field was absolutely fantastic. But why does he call himself this poor man?

Because he knows his own heart. And he says, Oh, when it really comes to my own standing before God, I am totally impoverished, I am utterly in need, I am desperate for God. This poor, impoverished, desperate man called upon the Lord in the midst of all his troubles, and God intervened on his behalf, and demonstrated how fantastic God is in the midst of all a man's troubles.

That is a statement of personal experience which cannot be refuted, which should not be rejected, but should be carefully checked on, and then applied in principle to my own experience. Have you had this kind of experience?

Where you sought the Lord with all your heart, and He heard you and delivered you from all your fears? Have you had the kind of personal experience where in the poverty of your own spiritual condition, which you freely admitted, you cried unto the Lord and said, Oh Lord, for Christ's sake, do something in my life.

And He intervened on your behalf and delivered you in all your troubles. Because that is just the sort of thing that God wants to do. Well now, secondly, let's look at the passionate exhortations that come.

Magnifying the Lord Together in Worship

And of course it's quite obvious that the one follows the other. When I have had a personal experience, it is quite obvious that I'm going to get around to some exhorting. You can't exhort somebody to have what you haven't had yourself.

I think perhaps on very rare occasions this has happened. Like the rare occasion that I've heard of, of preachers being converted through their own preaching. There was a famous evangelist in England called Billy Bray.

And Billy Bray was a very outspoken sort of character. He lived down in Cornwall, the very southwest tip of Britain. And one day he was in church and the preacher was preaching away, and suddenly a strange look dawned on the face of the vicar as he was preaching his sermon.

And as he was preaching his sermon, a strange radiance spread over his face, and he stumbled over his words and stopped and looked around rather helplessly. And Billy Bray, who was a very spiritually alert man and a very outspoken man as well, jumped up in his pew, clapped his hands above his head and said, How early are the vicars being converted?

Now this is somewhat unusual, but of course it's the exception that proves the rule. You can't really help anybody spiritually further than you've done yourself. You can't really exhort somebody to have a kind of experience that, quite frankly, you haven't experienced yourself.

But, I'll tell you what you can do. When you have experienced all that the Lord is in your life, you can then quite naturally begin to exhort people to have the same experience. This, of course, does not always follow, because some people have a tremendous experience of the Lord, but are so utterly selfish that they could care less about anybody else.

They say, well, of course, I'm not gifted to exhort other people. I'm not gifted to encourage other people. I'm not gifted to talk to other people. What they usually mean is this, I am more selfishly concerned about what people will think of me than I am concerned about what they need to hear because of what I've experienced.

And I would suggest to you that the natural development of a personal experience is a passionate exhortation. If the Lord has really worked on your behalf and has really operated in your life, then share the good news.

Now notice the three exhortations. Verse 3, O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. Magnify the Lord. What does that mean? Well, I'm sure all of you are aware of the little instrument called a magnifying glass.

Perhaps on some occasions you've had a little splinter in your finger and you couldn't quite see what it was, but there was just a little irritating thing there. And so you've got a magnifying glass and a pair of tweezers and you've begun to look around and you magnify the thing and suddenly that thing became crystal clear to you.

Now what he's saying here is this, the Lord isn't desperately clear to a lot of people. He's around, he's almost like an irritant for some people, but he's almost invisible. Now what some people need is something that will bring him into sharper focus and bring him into a larger, more understandable frame of reference.

And so what he says is this, come on folks, come on, let's get together and let's do something that is going to bring the Lord into sharper focus to other people and let's do something together that is going to make him be more clearly seen in all the beauty of his being.

Magnify the Lord. Do you remember the song that Mary sang? When she said, Oh, my soul does magnify the Lord and my spirit doth rejoice in God my Saviour. Now this is what David is saying, the same sort of thing.

He's saying, I've got such an intense desire to make this fabulous Lord more clearly understandable to people and more clearly understood in all the beauty of his being. Now notice very carefully that he doesn't want to do it on his own.

Oh, he says, come on, I want to exhort you. I want to exhort you to magnify the Lord with me. He said, I want to do it with somebody else. Now what does this mean? I would suggest to you that this is basically an exhortation to a reality of worship.

He wants other people to begin to praise the Lord, he wants other people to begin to worship the Lord, he wants other people to get as excited about the Lord as he himself is. Now there is a fallacy in certain areas of the church today.

The fallacy is this, that religion or spiritual experience is very personal and therefore is very private. It is a total fallacy. You won't find it anywhere in Scripture. What you will find over and over in Scripture is this, that when a person has a personal, private experience of the Lord, it is going to stimulate him to a tremendous concern for unity, for oneness, for a corporate being with other people like mine.

You know, one of the strange things that you'll find in some people is that they say that they have an experience of the Lord, but they would rather spend time with people who don't know the Lord than they would spend time with people who do know the Lord.

Now this is strange. I'm not talking about people who've got such an insatiable desire for evangelism that they've no time to share with others in worship. I'm talking about people who, quite frankly, say they love the Lord, know there are hundreds of people who congregate in a certain place who love the Lord, but really you've got to twist their arm to get them there.

Now let me tell you something. When there is a real experience in your heart of the Lord, you not only will want to rejoice in Him and magnify Him and praise and worship Him, you'll want to encourage other people to do it, and you will want to do it corporately.

I believe that this is a great exhortation to corporate prayer. I believe it's a great exhortation to sing together. I believe it's a great exhortation to witness together. I believe it's a great exhortation to testify together.

I believe that what ought to happen every time Christians get together in a home, that they can do all manner of other things, and then at least they'll want to sing together, and at least they'll want to pray together, and at least they'll want to share together, because they have such a passion for their experience of the Lord to be shared and for Him to be magnified, and all the time they'll say, Oh, let us magnify the Lord together.

Let us exalt His name together. Do you have any passion that gives you an insatiable desire to draw other people into a deepening experience of the reality of worship? Because that is a natural corollary of a personal experience.

Tasting and Seeing the Goodness of the Lord

But then secondly, He exhorts people to do something else. Verse 8. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Now, that is a great exhortation. It's a kind of little phrase that you can use over and over again in so many different ways.

And I would suggest to you that this is an exhortation to specific experimentation. You know, some people tell me that science and Scripture are mutually exclusive. And some people tell me that science and the Bible are a total loggerhead.

Now, you'll only find this kind of attitude in people who've decided for one to the exclusion of the other. So sometimes you'll find scientists who've decided that the Bible, of course, really doesn't talk sense in this area.

Therefore, science and Bible are mutually exclusive. And you'll find some Christians who are so frightened stiff of what science might find out that it may undermine their rather infantile faith that they simply say, The Bible is this, and science, well, all these scientists are a lot of rogues and knaves anyway.

Now, that just isn't true either way around. And you'll find scientific principles all over the place in Scripture. I would suggest to you that a very simple scientific principle is included in the words, O taste and see.

If you want to make a scientific approach to something, you would probably make an experiment. And I think I'm right in saying that the way you would go about an experiment is this. First of all, you would observe.

When you have observed certain things, then you would form a hypothesis. And then when you have formed a hypothesis, then you would work out a system of experimentation. And then when you have worked out a system of experimentation, then you would come to a conclusion.

Then you would try again to confirm that conclusion, and you would try to eliminate all kinds of impossibilities until in the end, on the basis of experimentation, you had come up with a firm conclusion.

Now, that is basically what taste and see is saying. Just supposing you see a little brown object out in the grass of your front yard. And you say to yourself, and this is observation, there is a little brown object.

Now, as far as you're concerned, you're not a very inquiring sort of person. You're just an easygoing sort of guy, so you could care less what that little brown object is. It could be all kinds of things.

It could be a mound of brown sugar. Or it could be a parcel with a time bomb inside. You could care less. You just happen to observe there is a little brown object. And your kids come in and say, hey, Dad, there's a little brown object.

And you say, so I have observed. I would suggest that anybody like that is a somewhat blah sort of person. They're not really inquiring, not terribly interested. But after your kids have come and said, hey, Dad, there's a little brown object in the middle of the front yard, you immediately start observing a little bit more.

And you notice that that little brown object is twitching. And so you say to yourself, well, that rules out the possibility of brown sugar. And in all probability, that means it is not a time bomb. Unless, of course, it is a nervous time bomb.

So you observe a little further. And then as you observe a little further, you will begin to notice that this little brown object not only twitches, but appears to have two somewhat elongated things on the top of what appears to be a head.

And so you say to yourself, those things look like ears. Now then, you've got observation. You have amassed certain data. Now what do you do? Well, if you're an inquiring sort of person, I'll tell you what you do.

You then form a hypothesis. Your hypothesis is this. On the basis of the information that is available to me, that little brown object that twitches, that appears to have a head and things that one would possibly call ears, it would appear to me that that is an animal.

Now then, what kind of animal? I know it may be a rabbit. Now then, you form an experiment. If that is a rabbit and I throw a stone, that rabbit will run away. That little brown object that twitches with the long things on the top of what appears to be a head, if I throw a stone, it will be nervous and it will run away.

And some would say it might be a brown cat. It might be an antelope. It could be a lot of things. You say, yes, that is true. But if it is a rabbit, it will be about this size, and it will have a little white tail situated where tails are usually situated.

So you throw a stone, and what happens? That is experimentation. And to know what you had thought in your hypothesis comes to be true. As you throw it, you begin to see that the thing springs to life.

It begins to run. It is about this size. It does have long ears. You can see the shape of its head, and the clincher thing about it is this. It does have that little white tail. Now what have you done?

You have engaged in purely scientific approach. You will not be totally convinced it is a rabbit, but you will have done something very simple. You will have observed, you will have formed a hypothesis, you will have experimented, and you will have come to conclusion, which is all a long-winded way of saying taste and see.

Now all that the psalmist is saying here with tremendous passion is this. Listen, listen, I have observed something. The Lord is fantastic. He is great. Not only have I observed He is fantastic in me, He is fantastic in him, and him, and her, and her, and her, and in fact all these people who come together with me and magnify the Lord, all of us have observed the Lord is absolutely tremendous.

Now then, with all the passion in my being, I want to say something to you. If you can observe all the things that have happened in our lives, I want you to be honest about it. I want you to inquire about it.

I want you to perform a hypothesis. I'll tell you what I want you to do. I want you to form the hypothesis that every one of us is telling the truth, that the Lord is tremendous. And I want you to form this further hypothesis, that if the Lord is tremendous to them, it could just be He could be tremendous to me.

But now I've got to have an experiment. Now a lot of people are busy forming spiritual hypotheses. The Lord is tremendous to them, the Lord is tremendous for her, the Lord is tremendous for her, this is what they say.

So, and they never get into the realm of experimentation. But when you get somebody with real passion who is urging you and exhorting you, you say, come on, taste and see. Taste and see. So what is the experimentation?

The experimentation is simply this. You say, okay Lord, if you're there, and if you've done that for them, and you say you'll do this for me, on the basis of the information that I have observed, and the basis of the information that I have amassed, I understand that if I commit myself in repentance and faith to you, on the basis of what I know, you will do this.

Okay, I'm going to taste and I'll find out. Do you know what the world should see? The world should see a lot of people who have had a personal experience with the Living Lord, passionately exhorting other people, first of all, to come and magnify the Lord with them, and then to taste and see that the God they love is as fantastic as they say.

Taste and see that the Lord is good. How many people have you exhorted recently to do that? How many people have you given an appetite, out of the sheer passion of your exhortation, to do that? Then he comes up with his third exhortation.

Reverence, Trust, and Commitment to the Lord

Verse 9, Oh, fear the Lord, ye his saints, for there is no one to them that fear him. Now notice, it would appear that the different kind of people are being subjected to his passionate exhortation. Of course, the person that we're saying basically to taste and see that the Lord is good is possibly someone who hasn't tasted and therefore has never seen.

He's never engaged in a simple scientific approach to spiritual experience. But now he's talking to people who are saints, those who know the Lord, those who have been set aside, sanctified by God. And you know, they and we all need a lot of exhorting.

We need a lot of encouraging. We need to be constantly reminded. We need passion in our experience. Do you know what we need all the time? We need to have people exhort us to a tremendous exhortation of practical commitment.

Oh, fear the Lord, ye his saints. Now, fear the Lord doesn't mean be frightened of him. It means respect him and trust him and reverence him and commit yourselves to him. Now, I wonder how often, by the very nature of our commitment and the very passion of our exhortation, we are leading people to a deeper commitment.

Because this is what happens when a person has a personal experience and has borne within him by the Holy Spirit a passion for others. He will then be constantly longing to see other people coming to a deeper experience of the Lord.

Oh, trust the Lord. And if you want an incentive, it says this, Oh, fear the Lord, ye his saints, for there is no want to them that fear him. That doesn't mean to say that they can't want to want to want to want to want because there never was a person who didn't.

What it means is this, there is no lack to them who fear him. So there we have the three passionate exhortations based on personal experience. And now we come finally to the positive intentions. What he intends to do.

Blessing the Lord Continually and Unashamedly

Number one intention, I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear thereof and be glad. Now, I wonder if it could honestly be said that this is your basic positive intention.

Let's analyze it. What he is saying, first of all, is this, I will bless the Lord continually. Not when everything's going right, I'll bless the Lord. And when something goes wrong that I don't like, I'll question the Lord.

I will bless the Lord at all times. Not when I'm getting my own way, will I say, Oh, it's great to know the Lord. But when I'm not getting my own way, I'll say, And why doesn't he do something about what's gone wrong?

But the overall attitude will be this, I will continually bless the Lord. I will praise the Lord. I will thank the Lord. I will rejoice in the Lord continually. That's what he's saying. The second thing he's saying is this, he will bless the Lord vocally.

Now, notice very, very carefully. He says, I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my heart. No, it doesn't. It says, His praise shall continually be in my mouth. You say, Oh, you're stretching it here.

Okay, look at the next verse. The humble shall hear and be glad. You know, one of the great drop-out areas of Christian experience is in the mouth of the saints. When a person has an experience of the Lord and has a passion for the Lord, he ought to have an intention for the Lord, which is quite simple, a vocal articulation of sheer praise and communication of the reality of the Lord.

I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. The humble shall hear and be glad. Do you know what that means? It means, I'm going to have something to say about the Lord at all times.

The standard of conversation of many Christians is not very high. Now, don't misunderstand me. I don't mean that it isn't high when it comes to talking business or church affairs. I don't mean it isn't high when it comes to talking sport.

I don't mean that it isn't high when it comes to talking fashion or homes or other materialistic things. What I'm really saying is this. When it comes to a point of really honestly being able adequately to articulate with my mouth so that people hear praise to who the Lord really is, the standard is low.

Why is it? For two reasons. Lack of understanding of the Lord and lack of intention to a commitment to vocalize my experience of the Lord. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.

That is a positive intention. That is before God my commitment. Did you ever get around to that? No, I know it'll be costly and I know it'll hurt and I know it'll embarrass. I know you might lose some of your friends.

And I also know that God will be glorified and you will be enriched and people will be reached who have not been reached now. But then the third thing that I want you to notice about this positive intention to bless the Lord is that he's going to bless him not only continually and vocally but also unashamedly.

Verse 2, my soul shall make her boast in the Lord. I was talking to a 12-year-old and a 14-year-old about this yesterday and I said, what do you think that means? And they came up with a lovely expression and I think it was lovely because it was just what I've been thinking as well.

And this little 12-year-old, I think it was, looked at me and he said, well, I said, what does it mean when it says my soul shall make her boast in the Lord? And he said, it means my soul's going to brag on the Lord.

I like that. My soul's going to brag on the Lord. Now listen, would you honestly say that continually, joyfully, vocally, exuberantly and adequately you brag on the Lord? Because maybe there's a lack of intent here.