Brown's Daily Word 1-6-10

Good morning,

Praise the Lord for gift of music. I love all kinds of music, but the best music is that which glorifies Christ, and exalts His Name. The New York Philharmonic is the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States. Founded in 1842, it was the first to play Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony No. 9, and the first to broadcast a live concert on the radio. Scores of distinguished conductors, soloists, and instrumentalists have performed with the Philharmonic over the years, which now does about two hundred concerts annually. In more than a century and a half, it has performed nearly 14,000 concerts altogether.

King David, known as the sweet psalmist of Israel, was an anointed musician and he knew how best to use music to glorify the Lord. In Psalm 16, King David depicted the Lord as the great Host in a royal banquet. The Lord, the Royal Host, assigns him a pleasant portion. In the same manner as a divine surveyor, He draws the boundary lines in pleasant places (vv. 5-6). Delight, joy, and security characterize all that David received from the Lord, who also counsels and instructs him. God was his teacher, and from Him he learned the “path of life.”

King David took refuge in God, praising Him in the fellowship of faithful believers (v. 3). He set the Lord always before him as the highest reality and priority of his life (v. 8). He rested in safety and waited eagerly for eternity (v. 11). Compared with the Lord, the rest of his life was as nothing: “Apart from you I have no good thing” (v. 2; cf. Phil. 3:8).

Psalm 16:10 expresses David’s faith that God would sustain, preserve, and protect him, even beyond death. In the New Testament, this verse is applied to the Resurrection of Christ as well ( Acts 2:25-28). May the Lord gift us today with His Holy Imagination that we might become poets and musicians to sing His praise and to declare His majesty.

In Christ,

Brown

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