[Songs in the Night - August 11]
Blessed are the people who know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of thy countenance. Psalm 89:15
OUR Lord in symbol pointed out to us the fact that
the message of his grace in the closing days of this
Gospel age would be so different from the commonly
accepted message, misnamed the Gospel, that it would
properly be termed a new song, although it would be
the old song of Moses—the message of blessing typified
by the writing of Moses and by all the ceremonies of
the Law;...and the testimony of all the apostles respecting
the Lamb of God and the great work to be
accomplished by him in taking "away the sin of the
world."
It is merely this same song that is now being
sung by those whom God has blessed with a knowledge
of present truth—it is the "joyful sound" which only
the people thus blessed know or can sing....Our
text implies that in order to be of the people who will
know the joyful sound it will be necessary to walk in
the light of God's countenance.
Or, reversing the
statement, the thought is that all who walk in the light
of God's countenance shall be his blessed people, and
shall know the joyful sound. Z'00-37 R2569:6 (Hymn 315)