The World Often thinks Against Godly Musicing

The World Often thinks Against Godly Musicing

1Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.  Timothy was a young minister and St. Paul knew the various pitfalls that plagued young people.  Certainly, St. Paul’s admonitions are of value to young musicians who minister with their musicing.  Kataphroneo (2706) means “to think against”.  Young musicians are never too young to be pure and to be an “example of the believers.” 

          Worldly musicians who are music philosophers “think against” many of the time-honored ways of musicing. Colossians 2:8 warns, “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.”  Sulagogeo (4812) which has been translated spoil in the above verse means “to lead away” as one who is lead into philosophical deception.  Proverbs 14:12 warns that, “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.”  Young musicians must remember that the spurious insipid arguments of worldly musicians seem to make sense but when one goes down the slippery musical slope of following the way that those who do not love and serve Jesus Christ, “the end thereof are the ways of death.”   A young Christian musician must remember that when it comes to music and musicing, direction determines destiny.