Someone recently told me about hearing a sermon by John Bisagno, long time pastor of First Baptist Church, Houston, TX, in which he said that God gave us a whole book of hymns, and it’s called “The Psalms.”  But then, he said something that I had never thought of:  “God gave us all those hymns, but He didn’t give us a single note of music!”

Why didn’t God give us something to clue us in on the proper tunes for all those songs?  John Bisagno said that it was because God knew that we would be living in a constantly changing culture, and that there is nothing intrinsically good or evil in a tune, but that the tune is simply a package by which we are attracted to the contents, and the contents are the words.

It is also true that God never gave us one song for our glorification in performance, but He gave them for our edification in worship.