学习唱诗是要紧的事
人信了主，必须学习如何唱诗。一个基督徒到聚会中去，如果不知道如何唱诗，那是相当大的难处。在聚会中，祷告是常常被忽略的事，恐怕唱诗更是被忽略的事。所以我们要学习唱诗。这是要紧的事。
诗歌乃是人最细嫩的感觉的流露
圣经里有豫言、有历史、有道理、有教训、有命令，圣经里也有诗歌。诗歌乃是人最细嫩的感觉的流露。人在神面前祷告的感觉，还赶不上人在神面前唱诗的感觉那么细、那么嫩。神要我们有细嫩的感觉，因此在圣经里，神就给我们有各种的诗，许多的诗。不只有诗篇、有雅歌、有哀歌，并且在历史中，在命令里，有时也加上一些诗（如出十五1～18）。这都给我们看见，神的目的是要祂子民的感觉细嫩。
我们的主的感觉是细的，是嫩的
我们的主的感觉是细的，是嫩的。可是我们人的感觉，有细的感觉，也有粗的感觉。发怒、生气是粗的感觉。有的人虽然没有发怒，但是他的感觉也不一定细。神要我们仁爱，神要我们慈怜，神要我们怜悯，神要我们表同情，因为这样的感觉是细的。神要我们在困难之中能唱诗，神要我们在痛苦之中能赞美，能称颂神的名，因为这都是细嫩的感觉的表示。当人爱人的时候，他的感觉是嫩的；当人赦免人的时候，他的感觉是嫩的；当人怜悯人的时候，他的感觉也是嫩的。
神要我们的感觉越过越细、越过越嫩
神带领祂的儿女所走的路，是要他们的感觉越过越细，越过越嫩，越过越像诗。一个人在神面前的学习越多，他的感觉就越细越嫩，越像诗；一个人在神面前的学习越少，他的感觉就越粗鲁，越不像诗。一个基督徒到聚会中去，如果走起路来重得很，一点不顾到别人的感觉，他就不像一个有学习的基督徒。我们要知道，自从我们得救之后，神要把我们的感觉一天一天的训练，训练到细嫩。基督徒要作得好，总得有细嫩的感觉。人在神面前，从最深处流出来的感觉，就是他的诗的感觉。神对于祂的儿女有细嫩感觉的要求。粗鲁的感觉不是诗，粗鲁的感觉不是基督徒的东西。
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The Sensation of Hymn — Psa. 104:33
Learning to Sing Hymns Is an Important Matter
After man believes in the Lord, he has to learn how to sing hymns. If a Christian went to a meeting and did not know how to sing hymns, it would be a big problem. In meetings, prayer is usually being neglected, and perhaps singing hymns is even more being neglected. Thus we have to learn to sing hymns, which is an important matter.
A Hymn Is the Expression of a Man’s Most Delicate Feelings
There are prophecies, histories, truths, teachings and commandments in the Bible, hymns are also included. A hymn is the expression of one’s most delicate feelings. The feeling when man prays before God is not as delicate and tender as the feeling when man sings hymns before God. God desires us to have delicate feelings, so He gives us various types of hymns in the Bible. Not only are there psalms, songs of songs and lamentations, but also poetry is sometimes added to history and commandments (e.g., Exo. 15:1-18). All these shows us that God’s purpose is to make His people’s feelings delicate.
Our Lord’s feeling is delicate and tender. However, our feelings are fine and rough. Being angry is a rough feeling. Some people are not getting angry, yet their feelings may not be subtle. God desires us to be kind, to be merciful and to express sympathy, all feelings are fine. God desires us to be able to sing hymns when in difficulty; He wants us to be able to praise and bless God’s name when in pain, because all these are the expressions of delicate feelings. When one loves others, his feelings are tender; when one forgives others, his feelings are tender; when a person shows mercy to others, his feelings are also tender.
God Desires Our Feelings to Become Finer and Tenderer
The path God leads His children to take is to make their feelings become finer and tender, and more like a hymn. The more a person has learned before God, the more refined and tender his feelings will be, and the more like a hymn. On the contrary, the less a person has learned before God, the rougher his feelings will be and the less like a hymn. If a Christian is rough when he goes to a meeting and does not care about the feelings of others, then he does not look like a learned Christian. We need to know that since we were saved, God will train our feelings day by day until they are tender. In order to do well as a Christian, you need to have a delicate feeling. The feeling that flows from the deepest part of one’s presence before God is his sensation of hymn. God requires His children to have delicate feelings. A rough feeling is not a hymn, which is not out of a Christian.