I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.
The psalm lays out the blessings God gave His people and sets beside them their poor response to those blessings. Israel was scattered because they forgot God. The same danger now faces the churches in the land, which are forgetting Him in the same way. The verse carries God's assurance that He will show His salvation, calling people to trust God rather than lean on human understanding, and He honors such faith and trust.
When one who is dead to self and in Christ opens the mouth in dependence on God, God will fill it. He supplies what is needed for speaking as He enables the worker to speak. This opening of the mouth is not self-reliance but dependence that looks to Him for utterance. When God thus fills the speaker, Christ Himself impresses the minds of the hearers.
The psalm lays out the blessings God gave His people and sets beside them their poor response to those blessings. Israel was scattered because they forgot God. The same danger now faces the churches in the land, which are forgetting Him in the same way. The verse carries God's assurance that He will show His salvation, calling people to trust God rather than lean on human understanding, and He honors such faith and trust.
When one who is dead to self and in Christ opens the mouth in dependence on God, God will fill it. He supplies what is needed for speaking as He enables the worker to speak. This opening of the mouth is not self-reliance but dependence that looks to Him for utterance. When God thus fills the speaker, Christ Himself impresses the minds of the hearers.