I remember years ago when I had finished a composition back in the time of hand manuscript – no computer program to notate clean, pretty music notation. I looked at the page of music and realized at one time this had been a page of blank music staves. At some point I wrote down a clef, then a key signature, then a time signature, then began putting notes, rests, etc. on the paper to create a finished product.
What spoke to me that day continues to influence me. Our lives are comparable to blank sheets of paper. But God provides us opportunities from which we write and orchestrate those pages. The end result is a work reflecting the choices we have made. Every person’s collection of pages is different, based on the given circumstances and how they were followed through.
I think about this analogy almost every time I begin writing a new composition, arrangement, or text. Every day we have choices about what to put on our personal pieces of paper – our lives. Do we just go for the first thing we think of, or do we carefully weight options to make a Godly discernment about what the final picture should be?
As we fill in the blank sheet, let’s do whatever it takes to make our final orchestration one of beauty that glorifies God. Because of God’s grace, mercy, and forgiveness we can live a life – create a page – that will be beautiful to God.
“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.” Romans 12:1
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