you yourselves are my witnesses

I like Ps40:3 because of its clear focus on the Giver of all Good Things. "And He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God." After the picking up and the setting upon a rock, after the saving and the settling, He heads to worship. It's the model of why God invented people. Jer29 says a similar thing. He has plans for us, for our welfare, and after, we will call to Him and He will answer and we will testify.

And it's not like we have to do anything in the testifying even. He's the one who placed the new song there. And not even a recycled one, but a personalized new one to replace that one we picked up from this world. The only part we played in this was the initial calling to Him in need. And that's certainly nothing to brag about.

There's a sermon in these notes somewhere. Too clouded right now to pick it out.