A Fresh Vision of God-part 3

A Fresh Vision of God-part 3   

            You may be skeptical of the reality of being in the Spirit when it comes to music making.  You may ask the question, “What can I hear from the voice of God?  What can the Spirit reveal to me?”  I confess to you that I do not know which of God’s secrets the Holy Spirit wants to reveal to you.  I don’t know how He will move upon your heart and warm it for His service.  I only know that He will.  If we are going to worship God with our musicing, we must have the anointing of the Holy Spirit.  I want to remind us all of the words of Jesus as he talked with the women of Samaria in St. John 4:23-24, “But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship Him.  God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must, worship Him in Spirit and in truth.”

             As I see it, the unction, or anointing of the Holy Spirit is one of our strongest defenses against being led astray.  I John 2:20-27 John warns against false teaching.  In the day in which we live everyone has an opinion about music and music ministry.  I believe that church musicians can profit from John’s warning and admonition in verse twenty.  He states: “But ye have an unction [chrisma 5545– a smearing or endowment or anointing of the Holy Ghost] from the Holy one, and ye know all things.”  (Words in brackets are mine.)  Later in verse 27 he concludes, “But the anointing (chrisma 5545) which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him. The Holy Spirit will abide in us and teach us and protect us from falling prey to the matrix of Satan.  This unction or anointing will guide us into all truth which includes truth concerning music ministry in the 21st century.   

Thought for the Day 
Some church musicians may consider the use of the terms unction and anointing to be fanatical but, they are biblical and they are vital to a Christian musician if his or her musicing is going to be Spirit controlled.

Song for the Day Not My Will, but Thine by Hugh C. Benner