Thursday, January 15, 2009
10:25 AM
"I gotta go replace it"
note: just took a post frm my own blog, thought it might "liven" up this place a bit.
yup, ytd evening, i told my dad (who was cutting up pineapples, he loves them),"Pa, i have to replace it, i don't care."
my dad, with his mouth full of pineapple, muttered in reply, "huh? replace what?"
"my classical guitar string luh! u know it's so old it snapped by itself without me noticing!"
"but u don't play ur classical guitar often what, buy some other time luh."
but still, i insisted that he bring me to some ulu guitar shop to get new strings. yeah, true, i dun play my classical guitar often, most of the time i use my acoustic guitar with the nice sonorous metal strings. but i just feel awkward knowing that one of my guitars is incomplete, missing a string, the "D" string (3rd one) to b specific. yeah, i can still more or less play it, like some simple tunes frm it. but most of the time, i find my left finger pressing on some empty space where my string was supposed to be. i can still make some music, yes, but not as well, there's still sth missing.
this led me to think abt God in my life. our lives are just like the guitar. in order for a guitar to make good music, it will need to have all its 6 strings intact and perfectly tuned. a guitar missing a string is just like missing sth in our lives.
we still move on with our lives, which still can be considered colourful to a certain extent, but aftr a while, we feel some sort of emptiness in our lives. some of us might start asking abt the purpose of their lives and so on. i've experienced that. for years, my spiritual life has been as dry as a desert. i pray to God once in a while, mayb for 5 mins? and then that's it, to me, i believe in God, i let Him into my life, i open the doors of my life to Him, except for 1, the door to my personal life. it's as if i'm telling God, "Lord, i receive You into my life, but give me some privacy pls, dun touch my personal life. i can manage, believe me." that is not the way to treat my Father, He wants our everything including our personal life. well, i haven't really given my everything to Him. because of that, i cld feel myself drifting away frm my Lord day by day, i felt empty, felt that my life had lost its purpose. it turned out that i cldn't handle my personal life, my emotions quite well. i had one way or another rejected God frm my life, that string in my life had snapped even without me noticing. it is only recently that i rediscovered the goodness of the Lord and decided that frm that day onwards i will draw closer to Him and walk, once again, hand in hand with Him.
Gone are the days when i sit on that throne of my life. now, the Lord sits on the throne of my life. He is our Father, Creator, Saviour, He made us, so of course, with Him at the head of my life, all things that He wants me to do will be good for me. there is no reason for my Father to want to hurt me. why? He loves me that's why. I strayed away frm Him, but He didn't give up hope in me, instead He held me back to His side with His strong loving hand, and i'm glad for that.
do you haf a missing string in ur life? Turn to the Lord Jeus today. Even if u don't now, He will still be waiting for you. The Lord is good, and He is patient. He died on the cross for you and me, He loves you and He will wait, it is up to you to respond and experience His goodness, first-hand.
"Let Creation Sing."
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