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We see good advice there on how we should walk through life. This advice was preached down through the ages. The English Apostles in their day found that people were also not walking circumspectly again, and they sent messages out to the churches.

They likened a walk through life is like taking a walk through the many tables that are set up in the markets where we go and buy things. These things are set there, and we walk through idly, and we see many thousands of things that when we look at them they really don’t have any value, but we look, and we pick them up and we put them down, and we walk on. Sometimes we buy them, and we take them home, and eventually they are thrown out. The market place is full of everything that takes the eye of mankind, and so it is with life. They said that for those, who walk circumspectly they see and can pick the most valuable things that are hidden in amongst all of those things. They see these and they then try to acquire them for they are everlasting.

Of course we are referring to the spiritual blessings that are available to each and every one of us within our lives. We have to seek them out and when we find them then all the other stuff that is in that market has no relevance to us. We can take them within our hearts and within our souls, and we can give thanks that we have received those blessings. The Apostle Paul also said that we should not join in with the world on many of the things that are happening. That is quite obvious, for we see the punishment and the distresses that come from that.

He gave advice there which might seem a little bit strange. Let us hear the words again that he said: “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and Spiritual songs, singing and making Melody in your heart to the Lord.”

He tells us that as we go through life we should be singing and thinking of the Word of God within our hearts. Singing within ourselves so that it enters within our hearts. We may very well say to our self – What use it that? What use is that for ourselves? What use is that for those around us? If we travel the world in many countries we see how they use song to co-ordinate and work together. In India when we were there we saw there the women were irrigating these crops. Some of them were pulling the water out of the well and pouring it into a channel and lined up along the channel there would have been at least two hundred women all with a silver pot. Of course, the water has to slowly move down through the channel. The first woman began to sing and she took her pot and threw the water over the crop, the second then did the same, and the third, and they all continued singing as each one picked up the water. This singing was co-ordinating and making them think as one.

We begin to see that this singing can work, but that is audible singing. What about this singing in the heart? Reading a book recently on the prisoners of war who were put out on work duty, they too used to sing to co-ordinate themselves and keep their spirits up. Those supervising them forced them to stop because they did not understand what they were saying and they thought that they could be conniving a plan to escape, and the officers said to the men – Continue with that singing in your heart; and they did that.  All of those who were involved felt that through that spirit that was coming from there one to the other, they could still be co-ordinated and they could still feel this spirit moving amongst them.

That is why the Apostle Paul says that we should do that within our lives, for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. As we sing these praises to God, when there is nothing else to be done, we cannot be distracted of course, that then will emanate, and the Spirit will take it to others, but the great blessing will be that we will be prepared to confront a problem. If suddenly there is a problem come within that workplace instead of biting back, criticising, causing trouble; out of the abundance of the heart the mouth will speak, and we will find we will be able to speak the love that is within us and not cause trouble. Let us always walk circumspectly and redeem the time that the Lord has given us.