Turning

Tuning may require Turning. Last week I shared the parallel between tuning our instruments and tuning our hearts. When we fail to tune our instruments, it is difficult to make beautiful music through our playing and singing. Likewise, when we fail to tune our hearts, it is difficult to make God’s praise glorious through our living. We must adjust our lives to the “proper” pitch, or God’s ways.

It is that adjustment that I want to focus on this week. On Sunday, Pastor David challenged us not to be “Silenced by Shame”. When we begin to come to an understanding of who God is, we see ourselves more clearly. When this happens we find ourselves in the uncomfortable place of having to admit to God that our actions have left us feeling “wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.” (Revelation 3:17) We are shamed, but we need not be silenced.

When God reveals Himself to us, we need to confess Who He is. Likewise, when He reveals ourselves to us, we need to confess who we are. We all hide in various ways, but are efforts are to no avail before God. We must simply agree with God about Who He is and who we are. Even then, we have only begun. In the analogy from last week we have at this point only admitted that God’s “pitch” is proper and ours is not. Next comes the adjustment, the tuning.

Tuning is adjusting to proper pitch. In our lives this will very likely require turning. The spiritual word for that is repenting. Repent basically means to turn. To make the conscious choice to stop heading in one direction and move in an entirely different direction. We admit that our lives were heading in one direction, our own, and that they need to head in another, God’s.

This is a pretty radical thought. We are no longer talking about making a small adjust. Now we are talking about wholesale change. A revolution of sorts. Pastor David will explain this is more detail Sunday, but maybe something has come to mind in the last few moments. Will you purpose to turn from that “improper” path and set your feet to walking in God’s ways only? Prepare your heart for this Sunday by considering, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, if there is some repenting for you to do. Then do it!


Turning to Jesus,

Pastor Scott