Tune My Heart
How often do you stop and thank God for the “little things”? Martin Luther said, “The greater God’s gifts and works, the less they are regarded.” That means, when the “little things” are little, they are frequently disregarded. However, when the “little things” suddenly become big, we find ourselves living in thankfulness.
We sang “Come Thou Fount” this past Sunday, and the first verse says, “Tune my heart to sing thy grace.” I have recently found God doing that very thing in my heart – tuning my heart to sing songs of thanksgiving – but he has not tuned my heart in the way I would have expected. I was certain he would answer all my prayers and give me everything that I desired. I mean, wouldn’t that result in my shouting his praises and lifting prayers of thanksgiving? Yes, but God knew my thankfulness needed to go much deeper than that. So, he tuned my heart through tension.
I would love to say that my faith has always been strong during these times of tuning, but that isn’t always the case. Normally, my wife’s faith is what carries us through these intense times of tension. She recently told me, “I’m going to be thankful for the morsels.”
Tuning an instrument requires tension. Without adding tension to the strings, the instrument will never be tuned to play beautiful music. Tuning our hearts to sing songs of praise and thanksgiving often requires tension as well. While we’d like to believe this can always be accomplished from receiving an abundance of “things,” perpetual answered prayers, and endless miracles, it might require being pulled from the feasting to give thanks for the morsels.
I will close with the words of Peter in 1 Peter 1:6-7, “In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
I pray you find your various trials result in a heart that is tuned to sing praise, glory and honor to Jesus Christ.
With much love,
Bryan
We sang “Come Thou Fount” this past Sunday, and the first verse says, “Tune my heart to sing thy grace.” I have recently found God doing that very thing in my heart – tuning my heart to sing songs of thanksgiving – but he has not tuned my heart in the way I would have expected. I was certain he would answer all my prayers and give me everything that I desired. I mean, wouldn’t that result in my shouting his praises and lifting prayers of thanksgiving? Yes, but God knew my thankfulness needed to go much deeper than that. So, he tuned my heart through tension.
I would love to say that my faith has always been strong during these times of tuning, but that isn’t always the case. Normally, my wife’s faith is what carries us through these intense times of tension. She recently told me, “I’m going to be thankful for the morsels.”
Tuning an instrument requires tension. Without adding tension to the strings, the instrument will never be tuned to play beautiful music. Tuning our hearts to sing songs of praise and thanksgiving often requires tension as well. While we’d like to believe this can always be accomplished from receiving an abundance of “things,” perpetual answered prayers, and endless miracles, it might require being pulled from the feasting to give thanks for the morsels.
I will close with the words of Peter in 1 Peter 1:6-7, “In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith--more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire--may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.”
I pray you find your various trials result in a heart that is tuned to sing praise, glory and honor to Jesus Christ.
With much love,
Bryan
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