Do you know?
The difference in the musical tone of a
violin depends mostly on the quality of the wood it is made of, even more
than how it is made. The best violin maker in the world cannot make a good
instrument from poor material.
Once I read about a famous
violinist who always made his own instruments because he wanted to choose a
special kind of wood. He shunned the forest but went instead to the mountains. There
at the top of the cliff exposed to all the storms he obtained his trees. He knew
the severe weather conditions toughened the wood and produced a quality of
grain and resiliency that could be developed in no other way. In fact, he used
only the wood from the side of the tree facing the wind!
When I thought about what I've read, I understand that like the wood that will be used to make violin it is
true also that we will become a “special
kind of wood” when we went through adversities and troubles in life. By storm of adversity, our loving Father
prepare in us the music of heaven. Not just in the making but in the tuning
God is perfecting us into the likeness of His Son. “Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them,” writes
Henry Ward Beecher, “The violinist screws
up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break
it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rock.”
God will shape you, He will fine tune you, because He is preparing in you the
music of heaven. I tell you, there will be concert in heaven!
Read Book of
James Chapter 1 verse 1 to 13
THINK BIG.
START SMALL. GO DEEP.
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