The Bible Commentaries and Others: Psalms 148 v 3

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Posted by Psalms on Sunday, 17 January 2016

Psalms 148:3

Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.

3. The sun and moon, as joint rulers of day and night, are paired in praise: the one is the complement of the other, and so they are closely associated in the summons to worship. There is a perpetual adoration of the Lord in the skies: it varies with night and day, but it ever continues while sun and moon endure. There is ever a lamp burning before the high altar of the Lord. Nor are the greater luminaries allowed to drown with their floods of light the glory of the lesser brilliants, for all the stars are bidden to the banquet of praise. Their light is praise in a visible form. Light is song glittering before the eye instead of resounding in the ear. Christians without light rob the Lord of his glory. However small our beam, we must not hide it: if we cannot be sun or moon we must aim to be one of the stars of light, and our every twinkling must be to the honor of our Lord.

Excerpt from:

The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)