You Must be a Partaker of the Divine Fruit

You Must be a Partaker of the Divine Fruit

II Timothy 2:6 states, “The husbandman who laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.”

       Bible scholars differ as to the wording and thus the meaning of this verse.  One school of thought is that the farmer who does the work must be the first one to sample the crop of fruit.  Another exegesis is that the farmer must eat the fruit before he works.  We are not going to settle this difference in exegesis today in this little philosophical discussion.

       However, let me ask you, as Christian musician do you regularly partake of God’s divine fruit.  When you are feeding others with the wonderful divine fruit produced when you music unto God, do you also partake of that divine fruit?  If you do not, there is a distinct possibility that you may “preach” and “feed” others with your musical ministry and become weak in your own spiritual life.(I Corinthians 9:27)

       Here are some of the warnings and admonitions given by Timothy in this Scripture passage:  1.  Endure hardness as a good soldier (vs. three),  2.  Don’t entangle yourself with the affairs of this life (vs. three), 3. Make sure you do the right thing the right way (vs. five), 4.  Be a partaker of the divine fruit (vs. six), 5. Carefully study God’s Word so that the Lord will be able to give you spiritual understanding (vs. seven).  So the heart of the matter is that you, as a Christian musician, must eat if you are going to have the spiritual strength to feed others.  If you do not you will not have an efficacious music ministry.