Friday, August 5, 2016

Guard Your Heart


Guard Your Heart

            Whether music we listen to and perform is or is not directly addressed to God is not the major issue.  Many people believe “you are what you eat” but ignore the fact that “you are what you hear” and “you are what you perform”. How does a Christian musician come to the conclusion that Christians are immune to the effects of the music they listen to and perform?  If any “musing” takes place in a person’s passive or active musicing, then it stands to reason that it will have a positive or negative effect on the whole life of that individual. 

            Proverbs 23:7 explains that “For as he thinks (shaar 8176) in his heart so is he...” If this Scripture is true, and it is, Christians will be what they muse.   The word shaar means to open as a gate-keeper.  Although God will help us, we as Christians are responsible to not open the gate of temptation.  Therefore, all musicing must be done advisedly since it will have a positive or negative effect on the heart life.  Proverbs 4:23 warns, “keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.”  What makes a Christian conclude that one may feed on musical filth for hours at a time and still maintain a holy heart life?

 

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