Psalm 123:1-4 To you lift I up my eyes, O you that dwell in the heavens.… Dr. Culross told of a Spanish fable about a family that had nothing very remarkable about them, but there was this which seemed to signalize them from other families in the neighbourhood — every member of the family had a peculiar habit of looking upward. They became scattered in the course of years, hut wherever one of them went, somehow or other they were always known by their neighbours and friends by this one peculiar habit. That is a very good family to belong to, and I trust that all here to-night do belong to it, and live looking upward. You know that story about Michael Angelo. He was so accustomed to look up at the fresco ceilings of the various churches and cathedrals upon which he worked, that he actually got into the habit of looking up. His head seemed to get that peculiar direction given to it, so that even when he was walking along the streets of Rome, there he was, looking upward. Let us remember, then, this first thing that we are called upon to do in the motto — "Look up, not down." (J. S. Poulton.) Parallel Verses KJV: {A Song of degrees.} Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.WEB: To you I do lift up my eyes, you who sit in the heavens. |
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