"O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good: for His mercy endures for ever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He has redeemed from the hand of the enemy." (Psalm 107:1-2)
There are two ways of reading the last part of this text, and both are correct. The first is the most common: "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so," with the emphasis on the word "redeemed." That is good, for the redeemed of the Lord ought, certainly, above all others, to say that the Lord is good. But the better way to read it makes this much more emphatic: "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so."
If the Lord has dealt well with you, say so; tell others of it. Do not keep it to yourself, for that is dishonoring to God and unfair to your neighbors and friends, who have a right to the encouragement that you could give them.
Silence is also disastrous to yourself. Says the psalmist: "When I kept silence, my bones waxed old." (Psalm 32:3)
He who never tells others of what he knows of the goodness of God, will soon lose his sense of it. When a lamp does not shine it is darkness; "and if the light that is in you be darkness, how great is that darkness." (Matthew 6:23)--Present Truth, August 22, 1901--Psalm 107:1-2.