HOW sinful is it to employ our lips for any but the Lord! Yet, how sadly reluctant are we to employ them for Him! Surely the day, when perhaps we have been fluent in worldly conversation, and yet have neglected our opportunities for speaking a word for Him, must be considered a lost day! Is there not much cause for watchfulness, prayer, and self-denial, lest by our silence we should be ashamed of Him, whom by every obligation we are bound to confess? If our inability to bear a testimony for our Lord is not painful to us, (Jer. xx. 9), we have the greatest reason to suspect, if not the sincerity, at least the strength of our attachment to His precious Name; and we can do no better than turn into our closets with the prayer of contrition:—”Enter not into judgment with thy servant O Lord”—Bridges on Psalm exix.