Giving
God Our Best Musical Offering
Although the quality of
the music we bring to God as an offering matters, musical offerings are not
solely about quality musical performance
or high quality musical art forms. Amos 5:22-23 states, “Though ye offer me
burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I
regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts. Take thou away from me the noise
of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.” God declared that He would not accept Israel’s
musical sacrifices because of their spiritual condition and refers to their
musical offerings as noise. God was referring to the spiritual condition
of those who “leave off righteousness in the earth” rather than, at least in
this case, the quality of their music. I
am drawn to this conclusion by what is recorded in Amos 5:12, “For I know your
manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take
a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.” The Bible lesson is clear that our musical
melodies and our instrumental music will be considered to be noise by our
heavenly father if we attempt to music unto him with sin in our hearts.
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