The Lord will “Set a
Watch”
Psalm 141:3 “Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep
the door of my lips.”
The
psalmist was well aware that the lips control the mouth. If a Christian’s lips are closed, nothing
rash or hurtful will be said. Surely every
Christian musician should pray this prayer of the musician David. Have you ever thought of why David asked the self-existent
eternal God to constantly watch over his mouth?
David’s prayer in Psalm 19:14 helps
us to understand why he needed JHVH to “set a watch “over his lips. He prayed, “Let the words of my mouth, and
the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength,
and my redeemer.” Unless God has control
of a musician’s lips, hasty hurtful statements are apt to come out. The little poetic thought “sticks and stones
may hurt my bones but word can never hurt me” sounds good but for most of us it
just isn’t true. Words spoken by others often cut deeply.
So, David
understood that we need God to constantly watch over the door of the musician’s
mouth which is our lips. In Psalm 34:13
David admonishes a person who loves and serves YHVH to, 1Peter 2:21gives New
testament commentary on For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also
suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps: Who
did no sin, neither was guile found in
his mouth: Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered,
he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously: Who
his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to
sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.”
Thought
for the Day
Being a Christian does not exempt a musician from having “guile”
in his or her mouth. It will come out
sooner or later unless that musician allows God to “set a watch” before his or
her mouth.
Song
for the Day Cleanse
Me by
J. Edwin Orr
Prayer
for the Day
“Search me oh God, and know my heart today.” I am asking you Lord who is all- powerful and
all-knowing to constantly watch my lips so that I will not fail You and hurt my
Christian brother by any careless words that I might say. I am praying like David, “Keep thy tongue
from evil, and thy lips from speaking
guile. “ This I am asking You
today. Amen
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