1 Chronicles 25

 At first read I thought 1 Chronicles 25 was going to be a yawner.  Another list of names – this time associated with leading worship for the Levites.  But as I reflected on it, God gave me a couple insights that seem rather important.  First of all, David is involved here in the selection.  “David and the worship leaders selected some”.  He was king after all.  This seems like a rather trivial thing for a king to get involved in – the selection of the worship team.  But not really.  These folks set the tone for everyone.  I don’t know if your church has a worship team, but I know on Sunday mornings at our church this group makes all the difference on how people get ready to meet God.  It was true for David’s time too, and he understood that importance.  The second thing that jumped out at me was this: they were doing “divinely appointed work”.  Not only did David care, but God has something to say here too.  This worship stuff is important to Him and these people were appointed by Him to make a difference.  But the biggest thing that jumped off the page at me was when they selected the 288 well trained masters in music.  They assembled the best of the best – “well trained in sacred music, all of them masters”.  That is one big band.  But look at what scripture tells us: “They drew names at random to see who would do what”.  If you know any really good musicians, they normally are not the easiest folks to manage or work with.  They want things just right and their way because they have earned that ability and position.  But in God’s band – David assembles the best 288 musicians and draws names to see who does what.  Can you imagine the revolt today if someone tried that.   But even more important, I think it sets the tone for service that we all need to take guys.  When you sign up to serve God at church or anywhere for that matter – does your service come with “strings attached” (and I am not talking about the instrument strings here)?  Mine often does.  I’ll serve if…..not exactly the way God wants us to serve.  His plan is to do it just like these musicians.  As another bible verse says “Here I am send me”.  No strings……