MAKE ME A TRUMPET

MAKE ME A TRUMPET

                As I turn the corner to other subjects, please note that I have not been downgrading the Law or the Sabbath in what I have said. I am only drawing attention to their true function so that we can press further into Christ, for He alone can save us and it is in our marriage relationship with Him apart from the Law that we come to know Him. It is in our belief in and our relationship with Jesus that we are saved. The Law’s job is to put us to death… not to save us. Therefore we need to understand God’s intended function for the Law and for the grace that came afterward.

                Now on to other things:

                I used to be a trumpet player. I played first chair trumpet in high school and afterward my brother and my father and I played trumpet trios in evangelistic meetings and such. But in all of my years of playing the trumpet and practicing the trumpet, never once did I see my trumpet climb out of its case and play itself. I never woke up in the middle of the night to hear my trumpet blaring away in the music room.

                As beautiful as my trumpet may have sounded, it was totally helpless to play even one note. All it could do was to convey what I played into it and through it to bless those who listened. This took a lot of practice, because when I first started playing, my tones didn’t bless anyone. On this note, my parents were very patient and understanding and they even promoted my squaks, believing that in time I would produce a good sound.

                My prayer (as it should be with all of us) is that God will make us into trumpets and though we can do nothing of ourselves, we want to bless the world with the music that God produces in and through us as He blows the wind of the Holy Spirit through us.

                There are times when we are tempted to think that our particular talents and or efforts are inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. We tend to sit back and let the big boys do it. But the truth is each of us was uniquely created by God to do something in a way that no one else can do it.

                When we stand in heaven and someone comes up to us and says: “You made a difference in my life on earth. You helped me to make a decision for Christ.” You will see that person in their glorious resurrected body and looking like an immortal king or queen and you will look ahead to the eternity that you will share together and suddenly you will understand the enormity of your unique witness to someone else.

                You made an eternal difference in an infinitely valuable soul. You became a unique trumpet upon the lips of God. You allowed Him to blow the wind of His Holy Spirit through you with what may have been the only tune that could reach that person’s heart and so you became a part of God’s eternal plan.

                Don’t underestimate your value as a trumpet, but remember that it can only play an authentic tune if it is being played by God as He blows the wind of His Holy Spirit through you.

                “Abide in Me and I in you. As a branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, so neither can you unless you abide in Me.” John 15:4