Young Musicians Be Careful
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.
Thought for the Day
It
is a good thing for parents to require pre-teens to have daily musical practice
and daily Bible reading.
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