Having the "Mind of Christ" Part 1

Having the  "Mind of Christ” Part 1 

My music philosophy is based on the single, fundamental premise which the reader must understand when reading my philosophy of music.  Everything that I have written in past years and what I am writing now is an attempt to explain its meaning in order to apply it to all musicing.  The premise is that God owns music.  So, for a music philosopher to understand the nature and value of sacred and secular music at their deepest levels, one must not only know about God but also know God by having a personal relationship with Him. I Corinthians 2:12-16 explains:

 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world,

 but the spirit which is of God; that we might know

 the things that are freely given to us of God. Which

 things also we speak, not in the words which man's

 wisdom teacheth, but which the  Holy Ghost teacheth;

 comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural

 man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they

 are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because

 they are spiritually discerned.  But he that is spiritual  judgeth

 all things, yet he himself is judged of no man or who hath known

 the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?   But we have the

 mind of Christ.

             Knowing God personally does not make the musician smarter but it does make it possible for him or her to have the ability “compare spiritual things with spiritual” because the Spirit filled musician has the “mind of Christ”—a condition that the worldly music philosopher does not have.  The musician who has the “mind of Christ” has the  unbroken and consistent existence or operation of the wisdom of the Holy Spirit operating in his or her life throughout that Christian’s spiritual journey with Christ.  

            The Christian musician must constantly be cognizant of the fact that the world is not a friend of grace.  The worldly music philosopher that does not love God with all his heart, soul, and mind is not seeking to accomplish the same musical goals as the Christian musician who believes that God created music and therefore owns music which He created for His glory and our edification.