– Deuteronomy 11:10
Change That Tune
How can we sing a new song unto the Lord if all we do is reflect on what He has done for us in the past? The only way to sing a new song is to start from scratch – with a never-before sung melody – something unfamiliar, and uncertain, and unexpected. The words and the arrangement will come to us as we push our imaginations into the unknown – you know, something brand-spanking new.
Our lives are the notes that move, and breathe, and jump off the page in harmony as the Great Conductor – our God – orchestrates and causes everything to flow as He points His baton here, and then there, and there. The notes (our lives), are constant, but when we allow the Master to rearrange our lives, the resulting symphony will surprise and amaze those who know us best. We will become a new song, created by God Himself – a testimony of His amazing grace!
The key is being willing to change. Not looking back on what used to be, as the benchmark for what's yet to come. God can do so much more with our lives if we just let Him be the Conductor, and if we stop trying to gauge the effectiveness of every new experience based on what we've done in the past, or on what's familiar to us. If we would just let God direct us; let Him make the choices and the decisions; allow Him to be God, and then move into the new space He's created – the perfect place, the unfamiliar place; the place where we can learn, and grow, and be the beautiful melody He created us to be, then our lives will be that new song – something fresh that we can teach the whole world to sing – a praise to our God, our Creator!
Prayer
Lord, we long to be the fresh melody in Your heart. Help us to embrace the new positions You need us to move in to. Forgive our resistance and our refusal to let go of what we know and what's familiar and comfortable. Allow us Lord, to be the new song that changes the world and draws them into Your loving arms.
Have a blessed day everyone!
– Richard
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