PSALM FORTY Testimony

It is the joy of a soul that knows how to hope
in the hour that would otherwise seem nothing but despair.
                                              Thomas Merton - On The Psalms

There is also gratefulness infused with joy when, we in our own situation, realize that in grace, faith and hope, we ourselves have been brought through from our own crisis to a place of safety and relief.

With the psalmist we can speak out the testimony of our deliverance

Psalm 40:2 NRSV   He drew me up from the desolate pit out of the miry bog.
                                 and set my feet upon a rock.
And if that is Christ speaking, then it would be all the more Christlike of us
to speak out the testimony of our deliverance and His..
God the Father brought our Lord Jesus back up from the miry bog.
(the death and decay of the grave)
He drew Him up from the desolate pit and put His foot upon a rock.

Our testimony is the testimony of Jesus Christ.
With the psalmist we can speak out the testimony of our deliverance
but our testimony is the testimony of Jesus Christ.