Daily Lesson for April 24, 2020

Today's Daily Lesson comes from 1 Chronicles chapter 6 verses 31 and 32:

31 These are the men whom David put in charge of the service of song in the house of the Lord, after the ark came to rest there. 32 They ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of the Lord in Jerusalem; and they performed their service in due order.

This morning's Lesson tells us of how David appointed the singers to serve in the Tabernacle before even the Temple was built.  It makes sense; for David was himself a musician that he would bring music into the service of the LORD.  For the making of music is a fundamentally human thing to do; and it was a gift to the Israelites to present their offerings to God accompanied by the sound of music.

The people can no longer enter the Temple now.  COVID-19 has determined that for a while.  But here the singers are, by the miracle of modern technology, singing for us still in the tabernacles of our homes.

We will come to the Temple once more.  And with the psalmist we shall say, "I was glad when the said unto me, 'Let us go unto the House of the LORD.'" 

But until then we tabernacle; and we do so with the songs of Zion in the mouths of musicians and also in our own hearts . . .

NOTE: We are reading the whole Bible through this year.  Readings over the weekend are from Psalms 81, 88, 92-93; 1 Chronicles chapters 7-10; and Psalms 102-104.