How Excellent Is Your Name

Opening the pages to the book of Psalms is like going through some elegant doorway into an artist's studio or an exhibition hall where splashes of colour and dashes of shadow fill 150 canvasses struck with the brush of a master. If you prefer, you can liken the Psalms to a concert hall in which music fills the rafters with a thousand notes rising from the chords of deep emotion touched by the hand of God.

The picture hanging before us today is called "How Excellent Is Your Name". It is listed as Psalm 8 and when you come to it, two things will rivet your attention, the picture itself and the most elegant frame which surrounds it. Both belong together but the frame on which the artist's name is etched in characters of gold is wonderful, indeed, it is magnificent.