Musicing
the Word of the Holy One of Israel
Psalm 71: 22 states “I
will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto
thee will I sing with the Harp, O thou
Holy One of Israel.”
The God is worthy of our musical worship, is Elohiym (430) the supreme
plural form of the word for the exceeding God.
The God who Israel worshiped with the harp and lyre in vocal and
instrumental praise is identified as the “Holy One of Israel”. The Hebrew word qadosh (6918) means the only
true God who is morally perfect or clean.
This holy supreme God must be worshiped in his “truth”. Our musicing proclaims the “true” truth of
our holy, supreme exceeding God.
The psalmist was not only interested
in singing and playing the large
hand-held lyre, but he was also concerned with proclaiming the absolute truth
of God’s message to his people. In order
for a Christian musician to music the truth of the Bible, he or she must
believe that it is the absolute accurate inspired Word of God. St. John 1:1 very clearly proclaims that “in
the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was
God.” As we know the word logos (3056)
means something said and that all the divine expressions or accounts were
breathed out by God and therefore God and what he has said in Scripture cannot
be separated.
Therefore, every Christian musician must
realize just how important his or her musicing really is. As Christian musicians we have the awesome
opportunity and responsibility to sing and play about God’s righteousness,
wonderful works, salvation, and holiness.
Twenty first century Christian musicians must not get so busy performing
that they forget that they are presenting the “true” truth of the “Holy One of
Israel”.
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