This post is contributed by 20 year old Lionell D’Costa from Mumbai. A hardcore Jesus lover, Lionell’s ministry revolves around leading worship using his guitar and keyboard playing skills.
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After two years of learning the guitar, not once did I realize that the beautiful music it produced was a direct result of the tension that resides within the strings along the key and right down to the bridge. But there is much more to it.
Pic Courtesy: Blackwell Guitars
Recently, as a personal project my uncle decided to make a guitar himself. Though as a family we highly doubted his skills, we watched with amazement as a real guitar took shape right before our eyes over the course of a month. Finally the day of fixing the strings arrived. I, being the “expert” volunteered to help out with this ‘simple’ task. Just as I put the last string, I heard a sharp snap and watched with shock and disappointment as the bridge tore apart from the guitar top.
We finally figured out that the wood had been compromised and so could not handle the immense tension of the string and eventually snapped.
What are you made of?
Here’s my point: I believe that we, human beings, are in some ways similar to guitars. The tension that exists along the string, from the keys to the bridge, is like every strain, tension, suffering, pain, sorrow and frustration we experience from our birth until our death. And just like the guitar, depending on what we are made up of, our lives could produce beautiful music or just painfully snap.
Now I do not think you ought to start fretting over what you are made up of. The Bible says that anyone who belongs to Christ becomes a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! (2 Corinthians 5: 17).And it does not matter what your heredity or environment says – IF you are in Christ, rest assured that He will have the final word. It is in the context of a relationship with Christ Jesus that the tension in the string, that is your life, will result in a beautiful sound, a true song of worship unto God.
Broken beyond repair?
Do you think that your life has snapped already? Or it’s broken beyond repair? Jesus can still put the broken pieces of your life together. All you got to do is surrender your brokenness to Him. After all, we are all still a work-in-progress and the Great Repairman is still working on us so that our lives may produce beautiful music for Him and unto others.