Proverbs 7:1-2, “My son, keep my
words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.”
Solomon
admonishes young people to keep God’s commandments when they are young. I know from teaching young people for over
forty years that the habits that young musicians establish in their pre-teen
years can either be a great help or hindrance to Christian living in their teen
years. A young person who has the
discipline to get up in the morning and practice a musical instrument will
often have the discipline to read the Bible and pray regularly. This discipline is not a given but it often
makes consistent attending to the means of grace regular habit of life.
Young
musicians should also “lay up” God’s commandments in their minds. When cognitions take place they are first
stored in the electrical memory of the brain.
When one consistently thinks on God’s laws this information become more
permanent as the brain experiences chemical changes. So, as cognitions take place in the brain as
a person reads the Bible, that young person is actually establishing a firewall
against the ploys of Satan in the future.
Matthew Pool’s Commentary explains that,
“As the apple of thine eye; with all possible care and diligence, as men guard
that part from all dangers, yea, even from the least mote. The eye is a most
noble and necessary, and therefore highly esteemed and beloved, part of the
body, and the apple thereof is the most honourable, and beautiful, and useful
part of that part, and it is a most tender part, easily hurt, or destroyed, and
therefore needs to be diligently watched.”
So, young Christian musicians should protect what their eyes observe and
only store those things that will be a concomitant to the changed life
principles taught in the Bible.
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