When I look in my music book, without looking at any words, those dots and spots, that are represented by musical notes, doesn’t mean anything to me, because I do not understand their meaning. I can’t read music. A sheet of music, no, not the music, but the written score or sheet of music, is complicated to me. Some people will look at it and immediately begin translating those symbols into sounds-music. Whereas people like me, are unable to make sense of what I see on the page, but that is okay, I don’t need to read music to appreciate it. I love music and all you have to do is teach me the song and I can sing it.
Musical notations are complex. The notes we see today are the product of centuries of innovation and refinement. Imagine looking at someone, writing those musical notations as only in dots and spots. When I look at them, I cannot make anything out of them, I just see irregular black dots. Some of them are larger than others and some of them are smaller. But then when a few lines are drawn to connect those dots together, then add a few rests and a clef, then we will see those black dots as musical notes.
Our life is like that sheet music. It will hit some high notes and some low notes. There will be some ups and downs. We start out as a blank piece of paper, let us say a piece of sheet music, and as we take our life’s journey, our music begin to be written. What kinds of notes, rests, and style of music you create is totally up to you. Will your music resembles a jazz beat or a gospel song with a choir? Will it play out as a symphony or rhythm and blues or just the blues? How it sounds will depend on your life, and it is yours to live, and how you live it, is your choice.
So how would you write your song to make it beautiful? How will your verse read, because each verse will be different, day after day and year after year. Verse 1, maybe about your childhood. Verse 2, maybe about your adulthood. Verse 3, maybe about your relationship with Christ.
Some verses will be happy and some verses will be sad. Some verses will be long and some will be short. Each verse will be about your life experiences. It is about your life story, but please don't live it without Christ.
Each dot and spot represents the life you lived. God permitted each event to happen in your life. He placed the dots where they needed to be, and sometimes he had to make a few adjustments. He had to redraw a line, here and there, and move a few dots. Don’t worry it was for your good. He had to separate this from that, and put some rests into its proper place, and from all of this, your own unique dots and spots were created. He made a beautiful harmonious work of art, out of your life.
Only God can take nothing and make it amazing and glorious. Before we accepted Him as our personal Savior, we were an off-key note. We were flukes, trumpets, gongs, harps, drums, cymbals, string instruments, and we were all out-of-sync, out of tune, going in different directions, and playing our own music, and no one was playing the same song at the same time. We were just a noise of confusion, with no harmony. God created us to be his instruments, with the ability to sing and make music, for His purpose and His glory. Once we accepted Him, we became music to His ears.
“Speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord.” Ephesians 5:19
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