Romans 8:38-39 For I am
persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 39 Nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
It is no mystery that in death we
can be separated from God if we are not prepared spiritually to meet Him. However, life many times separates Christian
musicians from God. Living does not have
to pull us away from God but it can! The
cares of this life can slowly but surely move us further and further away from
God. On the contrary, living each moment
in the hallow of His mighty hand can draw us closer to our heavenly Father.
Another warning of this scripture
passage is that created things can separate us from God if we let them. Music is a created thing for we know that in
the beginning God created music. Music,
a created thing, has drawn many Christian’s hearts away from God.
When Christian musicians worship
music instead of using musicing as a means of grace to draw Christians closer
to Christ, music becomes a god- an idol.
Christian musicians must remember God’s commandment, “Thou shalt have no
other gods before me.” (Exodus 20:3)
God will not share His glory with a
practicing musician hocking his or her artistic wares in front of the body of
Christ. If we as musicians want to be
overcomers or more than conquerors we will use musicing as a means of grace and
never as a means to draw attention to ourselves or the art of music.
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