Open Thou My Lips!

O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise. Ps. 51:15 Open my lips! The prayer of the psalmist stands very definitely in the singular. Emphatically personal is this outcry, personal in its longings to proclaim the praises of Jehovah, in its profound sense of unworthiness and incapability of praising the Lord, in its consciousness of lips that are irrevocably sealed unless they be opened by the grace of the God of his salvation. But the prayer and praise that leave...