"So, which song did you like the best?"
Words said by my daughter Sarah, yesterday evening after I had attended her music concert in Dayton.
When you stop and think about all the work that goes into a concert, you really appreciate the music. It's not only music that you hear, you also are receiving a piece of the choirs lives. Together with the director and all those who accompany the choir, you are listening to the result of hours of practice, learning, rehearsing and musical enjoyment that the group had prior to their performance in front of you. They are nervous, but delighted to perform in your presence. The musicians expose themselves to your judgment for a moment as they perform. But the audience is eager to be delighted and are always delighted as they consider the music and those who perform the gift of this piece of their lives in your presence.
Read 2 Corinthians 5:6-17
As Christians, we live our lives with the aim of pleasing God. God has given us renewed life through Jesus our Savior, and we give our lives in response to please God. In this pleasing of God, we take in as much as we can from God's Word active and alive today. We use the gifts God has given us to reflect God's glory and to proclaim Jesus' saving grace to all the world. Although we are nervous to perform in God's presence at times, we are delighted to perform and do God's will. We expose our talents to those we serve and to God. We give away our lives to God in our concerts of life.
2 Corinthians 5:17 - Therefore, if any one is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away, behold the new has come.
"So, which song did you like the best?"
Prayer
Lord, as I hear and see your Word, may I learn how to please you and those you give to me... today... tomorrow... and forever. --- Amen
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