April 21, 2009
Each of us has a voice. This voice tells people who we are, how we fit into their world and how they fit into ours. Your voice is not only how you talk but also how you act or react to those around you. Your voice tells people how they can relate to you or not relate to you. Your voice includes the gifts and talents God has given you.
Jesus speaks to the world through us by using our voice. God created us to be a certain voice for him. His concert is written for each of us to use the voice he gave us which melds with the other voices around us to create a beautiful symphony that spreads his glory, presence and love through out the world.
To be the voice you were created to be you have to be in tune with God, hear what he tells you, feel his guiding, move with him in the dance of life. When you are the voice you were created to be. You sing the most beautiful song, without flaw or pause or stutter. Your voice joins with the other voices God created to sing a symphony of the most beautiful sounds and movements. The melding together of each voice to create a sound no one could create alone. Each voice different yet in concert with every other voice. The sound in God’s ears of this symphony is unsurpassed by any other sound in God’s creation.
The discord comes when we try to sing with some one else’s voice. When you are not satisfied with the voice God gave you, you try to sound like some one else. To want some one else’s gifting or talent is human nature but if you try to use their voice then there is discord in the symphony. Your voice doesn’t sound like it should so it is a sour note in God’s melody.
You were not made to use some one else’s gift or talent. When you try, you fail, or your success is limited. Be joyful in the gifts and talents God has showered upon you. You were made for the ones he gave you so you can use them better than anyone else. Just remember, as much as you yearn for another person’s gifts, some one is yearning for yours. If each of us could be happy with what we have and quit yearning for another person’s gifts Gods concert would be perfect and bring joy to the entire world.
