Training Our Own part 1

 

Training Our Own   part 1

1 Chronicles 25:6 tells us, “All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God according to the King’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.”  The Levite sons were under their father’s “hands for song” (yad shiyr 3027, 7891).  This Scripture is probably a reference to cheironomy i.e. the use of hand signs to designate pitches to the Levite musicians.  So, these musicians were under the hands of their father who was a cheironomer or at least knew how to teach others the ancient art of cheironomy.  Now many centuries later, young people are under our hands for song like the Levite sons in ancient Israel.  The conducting gestures used by the conductor actually place these ministering Christian musicians under his or her hands.

           It is an awesome responsibility to have children, young people, and adults who are depending on us for musical and spiritual leadership.  Chapter twenty-five of 1 Chronicles is a discourse about the chief musicians who were music directors and the young musicians who received musical training and leadership from godly musicians like Asaph, Heman (Ethan), and Jeduthun.  These Levite men taught musical matters in the context of service to Elohiym the supreme exceeding God.