Those Who are "Under Your Hands"

Those Who are “Under Your Hands”     

I Chronicles 25:6 states, “All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God according to the King’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.”   

The Levite sons were under their father’s “hands for song” (yad  shiyr 3027, 7891).  This Scripture is doubtless a reference to cheironomy i.e. the use of hand signs to designate pitches to the Levite musicians.  So, these musicians were literally under the hands of their father who was a cheironomer.  Now centuries later young people are under our hands for song like the Levite sons in ancient Israel.  The conducting  gestures used by the conductor actually place these ministering  Christian musicians under the hands or the conductor. 

       It is an awesome responsibility to have children, young people, and adults who are depending on us for musical and spiritual leadership.  Chapter twenty-five of I Chronicles is a discourse about  the chief musicians who were music directors and the young musicians who  received musical training and leadership from godly musicians like Asaph, Heman (Ethan), and Jeduthun.  These Levite men  taught musical  matters in the service of Elohiym the supreme exceeding God.

     As a ministering musician you have an awesome responsibility like Heman  to be the King’s “seer” or a beholder of a vision of God’s kingdom (see I Chron. 25:5).  It is your responsibility to pass that vision on to those you minister with and those who are “under your hands”.