“Our life is like a Symphony in which the Composer has given each of us a part to play. When our notes have been played and our song is finished, may we hear the Great Composer say, 'Well done thy good and faithful servant; enter into the joy of your Lord.'” Those were the words I heard in my heart yesterday just as I was waking up.
Friends, you and I are the instruments in God’s orchestra and we all have been issued a part to play. A question that has caused me to seek the Lord even harder and examine my heart more thoroughly is: “Are we playing the notes that the Great Composer has assigned to us? Or have we chosen to play our own song?”
More than anything, I don’t want to play my own song. I want to play the piece that the Great Composer has assigned to me. You know life is busy. And there are many things that fight for our time and attention. We have to fight off our natural tendency to seek our own way and to compose our own song. Jesus gives us a sobering warning about playing our own song: “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the will of my Father in heaven will enter.” (Mt. 7:21)
So how do we know the will of our Father? How do we know the path that He has prepared for us to walk on? “Keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.” (Mt. 7:6-8)
One time I asked the Lord, “Why do I have to keep on asking, keep on seeking and keep on knocking? Why can’t you just answer me the first time?” To which He revealed: “Only those who are serious about Me will keep on asking, keep on knocking and keep on seeking.”
We must take the Lord seriously. We must love Him wholeheartedly. And we must seek Him fervently. As we do, He has given us a promise that “those who seek Me diligently will find Me.” (Prov. 8:17)
"Many plans are in a man's mind, but it is the Lord's purpose for him that will stand." (Prov. 19:21)