What God Has Done For Your Soul

by Joey Carroll Corinth Missionary Baptist Church

This is our last week in Psalm 66. I trust you have had time to look at it yourself or have at least kept up with the last two weeks we have spent in this article series. We have come a long way. The Psalm began with a call for the entire earth to worship God (v. 1), and now we find ourselves listening to the worship of one individual (v. 15).
Worship is meant to be a time for those who have faith in Jesus to gather corporately every Lord’s Day and participate together in a number of great blessings. We are meant to lift our voices to God in prayer and in song. We are meant to encourage one another in love as we hear each other singing praises to God, even though we are all in different seasons of life. Worship is meant to be the time when we gather at the Table and remember the broken body and the shed blood of our Savior who died in our place for our sins. And corporate worship is when we hear from God as the preacher faithfully proclaims the Word of God (and not the preacher’s own words) to the children of God.

But worship is also a very personal and private matter that we should each engage in every day. The Psalmist has moved us from the call to “come and see what God has done” (v. 5) to now saying “Come and hear, all who fear God, and I will tell of what He has done for my soul,” (v. 16, NASB). The Psalmist wants to share with us his personal testimony.
Hopefully, you attend a church where the pastor faithfully preaches and teaches the Word of God in such a way that you can easily understand the truths of Scripture. And hopefully, he faithfully confronts you in your sin through the preaching of God’s Word and calls you to continual repentance toward God and faith in Jesus Christ.

But individually, we are also called to be a people who are ready, prepared, and willing to tell others what the Lord has done for our souls. Few things are more meaningful and powerful as your personal testimony of Jesus. The Apostle Paul shared his personal testimony three times in the New Testament. The first account is written for us by Luke in Acts 9. The account would have had to be given to Luke by Paul as he describes in detail how he met Jesus on the road to Damascus and was wonderfully born again. Paul started toward Damascus with the intention of arresting those who followed Jesus. By the time he arrived at Damascus, Paul was a man preaching faith in Jesus. The other two times Paul shares this same testimony, he is speaking to kings and those in charge in order to defend his life.

There is something about a personal testimony that is both powerful and indisputable.
Every week, by the grace of God, I stand in a pulpit and teach the Word of God. But I realize that there may be times when someone is listening online that disagrees with what I say. As long as someone can make a reasonable defense from the Scriptures, I am willing to listen to his argument. After all, Scripture stands above all men in authority because it is the wisdom of God written down. But there is no arguing or disagreement when you share what God has done for your soul. What He did in your life is deeply personal and very powerful when it is shared with others. And when it has changed who you are as a person, your life verifies what your words say and the only response someone can have to that is to be amazed at the power of God.