Musicing about God, for God with God’s Grace-part 2

 

Musicing about God, for God with God’s Grace-part 2

          There is also another companion passage found in Ephesians 5:19-21, “Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ; Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.”

          I would like to take a brief moment to remind Christian musicians of the main reasons for our musicing.  First, we must always music “in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”.  The Greek word used here is kurios (2962) which connotes supreme authority, or the one who is the Christian’s Savior, Lord and Master.  Christian musicians often tend to get lost in the fact that they are giving a music performance or that they work for and represent a particular church or Christian organization. All of the above may be true, but a Christian musician’s supreme authority is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.  Second, the Christian musician who is performing the psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs does so as a vehicle for giving thanks to God the Father by the mediatorial agency of God the Son. Third, our performances are “submitted” (hupotasso 523), performances unto God and His people.  These performances are not event opportunities for a musician to hock his or her musical wares. Forth, (Colossians 3:16) a musician who performs or leads others in sacred music must have the grace (charis 5485) God in his or her heart.  This Scripture is not referring to man’s charisma or the joy of performance but rather God’s grace.

Thought for the Day

As I have often said that the church musician must not only know about musicing unto God but also must know God by having his or sins forgiven and having passed from death unto life by God’s saving power.