Obedience That Comes From Faith

A piano is a complex musical instrument, made up of many components that fit and work together to make music. Oh, but wait... the piano itself can't do anything without the musician at its keyboard.

In the New Testament the church is called the body of Christ. In Ephesians chapter two Paul describes the church as God's building. And we are living stones.

I'm wondering if this image of a piano might be one some relate to a bit better. Christ is the head of the body, and the Chief Corner Stone, and the Piano Player. The reason the image of the piano appeals to me is that I more readily see how necessary each chord is to the whole, but how each is useless without the others. That each are in tune, not only with the note that they play, but with each other. For there is the relative tone, and the absolute tone. For instance, Concert A is 440 Mhz - it also referred to as perfect pitch. All the other strings are tuned to that . . . in relation to that. Each not is a certain number of mhz up ↑ or down ↓

Hmmm... in that case perhaps Christ is Concert A, and God is the one at the piano... and the work of God on this earth is the song that is played.

Regardless, there is the fact that each needs the other. There is the fact that God tunes, and connects us, as each of us respond to his work in our lives. Just as the potter forms the pot, so the musician tunes each string.

The obedience part is not only the fact that each is tuned and ready, but each sings the sound that it was created to sing, without being in charge of the whole work.

The whole idea of a plan being ours from beginning to end... is what I'm letting go of. I obey, and do as God has for me to do each day, and my satisfaction is in the fact that I've been obedient to Him.

My brother-In-Law, David has been given the task of being in a hospital bed yet again. To regret that he isn't off doing something else is indeed understandable. And perhaps that is because we are all meant to have a purpose beyond simply surviving from day to day. An inner, Godly drive . . . but in the meantime, David getting up off that bed is partly David's task, and partly God's.... God's part at this point seems to be the greater of the two, but isn't it always?