Plucking Strings



A few weeks ago, my sweet sister and I were playing around a bit on her guitar. At first it was pretty out of tune, so of course, it sounded terrible! I observed, however, that even when you pluck a twanging string, you can stop the noise by simply placing your hand on the string. Obvious if you've ever held a guitar, yet interesting that you can start and stop a beautiful, or in this case, an awful, noise.

There are little things in life that I allow some string twanging to go on in my soul. Silly little things, like finding the dog had chopped off several of the pretty tulips outside. I quickly choose to pluck an out of tune string in my soul, sometimes for only a moment, but more often I pluck repeatedly throughout the day.

But you know what? We can simply say, "Jesus put your hand on this string," and that foolish noise goes away in an instant. Pretty soon, we don't even choose to pluck the string, instead, we get in tune to HIS voice and start to play His joyful songs. I encourage you to worship Jesus by playing some music...not with an instrument or by singing, but with your soul instead.