AN INSTRUMENT FOR HIS GLORY

 Have you ever owned an instrument that needed repaired? We use a guitar and a piano each Sunday morning on our praise team. There are times that the strings on the guitar get old and start to make sounds other than the ones in tune with the piano. It doesn't matter how hard we try to sing using those strings it's going to be slightly off tune from the other musical instruments.

 

The same is true with the piano. Just last week we had to call in a piano tuner to work on the strings of the piano. With the piano sitting in the auditorium where it's cold every day except for Sunday and Wednesday, it loses its tune more quickly. 

 

Once both of these instruments have been worked on by a person trained to repair or tune instruments, it once again sounds beautiful.  The instrument will now sound beautiful with other instruments or by itself. 
 

We are all instruments of the Lord Jesus Christ and just as the piano and guitar get out of tune, our instruments do also. 

 

We go through life watching people and it is obvious to others that the person's life is out of tune.  That person may not actually see what is coming forth from their life.  They have been playing solo for so long and the strings on their instrument became so off key, one step at a time, that they are unaware just how out of tune it has become.

 

Each of us needs to take our instruments, our lives, to the master tuner, Jesus Christ and let him do a total make-over.  It may take longer to get some of our instruments back into the shape.  It may be a painful process for some of us but the fact still remains, we need to be tuned. 

 

We need not only to be in tune for our own sake but we need to be in tune for the sake of others.  We are all members of the body of Christ and we should be playing in harmony with each other.  This will not be accomplished unless each of us place our lives before the Lord Jesus Christ and allow him to tune our hearts to himself.  Once this is accomplished, we will all be tuned to the master tuner and be able to play in perfect harmony with the rest of the symphony, the body of Christ.

 

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.  (Romans 12:1-5)