Seek God's Answer

Seek God’s Answer

Psalm 1:31 states, “LORD my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.” 
       This psalm is a prayer of a musician.  In the first part of the musician’s prayer he reminds Jehovah that, in his heart, he has not lifted himself up.  In other words, this musician does not think more highly of himself than he ought to think.  Put another way, he does not try to sell himself for more than he is worth!  This musician was wise enough to know that it is God’s job to do the exalting.  
       Most musicians can truthfully say “neither do I exercise”.  However this is not what the musician meant.  He is merely reminding God that he does not exercise his thoughts on things that only God is able to understand. Strong’s states that the word translated exercise is the Hebrew word halak (1980) which is similar to yalak (3212) which means literally “to walk”.  We know that the word halak is used here in a figurative sense.  It means that this musician refuses to follow a philosophical hypothesis that cannot be supported or that he or she does not understand.  
       The psalmist refuses to have a haughty spirit that pretends to know things when they are in fact a mystery to him.  He wisely admits that there are some mysteries in the Bible that, as he put it, “too high for me”.  I am convinced that God honors an honest heart.  If we as musicians do not understand some of the mysteries of the Bible we must seek God’s answer.  James 1:5 reminds us all that, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.”