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Yesterday, our family visited a piano factory and showroom as we began our search for a newer piano for our home. The beauty, the music, the craftsmanship - they were all breathtaking. The greatest lesson we came away with, though, had to do with the craftsmanship in making the pianos, and even the talent in playing any of the pianos in the showroom. We learned what really matters.
It’s not the tool in the hand that matters;
it’s whose hand the tool is in that makes the difference.
If you take three different pianos, each a different make and of a different value, and let a person who has never taken lessons play the pianos, you’re likely to not hear much of a difference, except maybe in the tone of the sound.
Take those same three pianos and let a trained pianist play them. You’ll be amazed at the music that they can pull out of the instruments. The same instruments which seemed of very little worth when played poorly, or which seemed to have very little distinction from one another, are now making masterpieces because they are in the right hands.
Apply that same principle to the Bible. We probably all own a Bible, maybe several Bibles. Chances are, we read our Bibles with some regularity, right? We probably have our favorite verses and passages underlined or highlighted.
But if our Bibles were to play the tune of our life, would it be a simple, maybe-melodic tune, or would it be a moving, beautiful masterpiece, as played by a world-class musician?
Where does your Bible live? Mine seems to get moved around as I read it in one room, and then another. But I’ll be honest - a lot of Sunday mornings, I’m trying to remember where I left it as I race to get ready for church in time. What does that tell you? That consistency isn’t always my strength.
Take that same Bible - the one I can’t always find - and give it to a Christian who is longing for their very own Bible.
The Bible takes on a completely different worth in that person’s hands. It’s a gift, a treasure, a masterpiece. Chances are, the person holding the Bible will devour our favorite passages. They will read it for all it’s worth, where I’m likely to try to read a few words. They know what really matters.
In our Bibles, we have a precious tool - one that gives us hope, one that details how we can live life to the fullest, a tool that can beautifully shape our lives.
But we’ve become comfortable - maybe even complacent - in our lives.
We have the most valuable tool for living life, but we hold it with hands that live in comfort and complacency.
Friends, God is calling us out of our comfort zone. We have been given God’s Word, and when used properly, it can make our lives a beautiful instrument for God’s use.
What if we decided that we would treat our Bibles as the treasure and precious gift that they are? What if we vowed to know where our Bibles are, at all times. What if they started to fall apart from frequent use?
By God’s grace, our life song would be a masterpiece that captures the attention of those around us, and points them to Jesus!
Friends, we have a powerful tool in our hands. We live in an area with such easy access to God’s Word. Many Christians around the world do not have that same access. They would love the Bible in their hands, even in their own language. We are blessed, we are so very blessed.
Let’s treat our Bibles as the powerful, valuable tools that they are. Let’s read and use our Bibles in such a way that honors those who cannot easily access a Bible. Let’s treat this tool that can help to create a masterpiece of our lives, with the reverence and respect it deserves, as God uses this tool to create beautiful masterpieces for His glory!
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