Are you fine tuned?

Yesterday we had our piano tuned. The piano came with the house that we bought this past December. We figured it must have just been an old piano and the sellers would get a newer model, when in fact; it is relatively new. It's a 2002 model and was specially made for churches, schools and piano teachers. Apparently, it's a very special model. As I sat there and watched the technician work on the piano, I began to have a revelation unfold. Our lives are kind of like a piano. The insides delicate to the atmosphere around us. The slightest change in humidity, continuous playing, relocating, or even just time changes how the notes sound. Our surroundings effect us. So the technician opened the piano up and began to study the insides while playing a key here and there. He started in the middle and worked his way left and then right. He used only one tool to help get the piano back in tune. It was amazing to watch, because he knew exactly what each note was supposed to sound like. Even I could almost know when the key was almost tuned, it just sounded right. So I began to think how this piano was like people's lives. Many of us have "keys" out of tune. Many times these are the areas that we struggle with and oftentimes these are the areas most unpleasing to God. When the technician came in to tune the piano and get it where it should be, he didn't fix all of the untuned keys at once. No, he worked on them one by one. However, he still recognized that there was more to fix and didn't just ignore them. He wanted it to be pleasing to our ears and work as it was created to work. With his tool, he took on each untuned key one by one. Sometimes as a new Christian (or even a seasoned one), we get frustrated because we feel like we have failed God or God has failed us when in fact He is in the process at fine tuning you. With His special tool, just like the technician, God uses the Holy Spirit to transform those areas in our lives. Just like each key on the piano, some took a little longer to get in tune, but it was a work in progress. Not once did the technician say, "this key just won't tune, I give up." We might give up, but God won't, let Him fine tune you, let Him get you to be where He knows you should be, what you were created to be. However, we have to be willing for that "key" to be changed. I was amazed to witness how much care, passion, and gentleness the technician showed toward his work on the piano. Jesus is the same way with us. The Bible tells us in John 3:16, " For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." I think that sums up the passion and love that Jesus has for us, He died for each and everyone of us. Now it's time to be fine tuned. Do you want to be pleasing to the one who has given His life so that you can have life? I know I do, even though it's not easy, I want to be and do what God created me for. I want to be pleasing to Him. If God has started that process on you, let Him finish fine tuning you, if He hasn't started yet, then ask Him to begin. Sometimes we don't recognize how special things our, just as I didn't recognize the specialness of our piano. Each of you are special, each of your lives are special. No matter how much you think you have messed up or how out of tune you are, once forgiven, you can be fine tuned. Talk to Him, He is waiting to listen and to begin the tuning process. You too, are a very special model.

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