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11/2 Reading Portions: 2 Kings 15; Titus 1; Hosea 8; Psalms 123-125
Hosea 8:1
Set the trumpet to your lips!
TRUMPET
While the Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Word (John 1:1) who became flesh and tabernacle among men (John 1:14), the written Word of God embodies the Spirit of Christ. You might even say that God’s written Word is the voice of the Lord Jesus. As our sovereign Savior rules and reigns from heaven’s throne (Heb 1:3), He speaks to us by the Spirit through His Word. His voice resounds like a trumpet (Rev 1:10), and its sweet, harmonious notes press upon our hearts, so that Christ’s gospel becomes the magnum opus of our souls. While we wouldn’t drink down a literal trumpet, as the sound of a trumpet is figurative of Christ’s voice, we may drink deeply of His Word. Surely, we may place the voice of Christ’s Word upon our lips to…
taste and see that the LORD is good! Psalm 34:8
Yes! what a blessing the voice of the Lord is to all those who thirst for righteousness (Matt 5:6). We are also to set the trumpet of Christ’s voice to our lips so we may speak as the oracles of God (1 Pet 4:11). Oh! what a special honor it is to set the trumpet to our lips so that the voice of Christ may edify our brothers and sisters with the melodious truth of God’s revelation to man, unto the Father’s glory through the Son’s exaltation! Moreover! what a blessed privilege it is to set the trumpet to our lips so that the voice of Christ may sound the alarm to a lost and dying world; that the souls of our children, neighbors, and even strangers may be awakened to, and saved by, the sound of Christ’s gospel. Finally, it was the trumpet, the simple ram’s horn shofar, that was used to bring down the walls of Jericho (Josh 6:4-20). Surely, the shrill of a ram’s horn by itself is ineffective against the wiles of Satan; yet as the trumpet is figurative of Christ’s voice, by the Word of God, Satan is rebuked and his demonic minions tremble.
Let’s set the trumpet to our lips,
May Christ’s voice be our sound;
We’ll drink it in and sound alarms
That God’s glory may abound.
