Play Sublimely

The verse for today’s devotion is from Psalm 139, verse 14.

I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way.

Max Lucado titled this devotion “Play Sublimely”. He writes that Antonio Stradivari was a 17th century violin maker whose name in its Latin form, Stradivarius, has become synonymous with excellence. He once said to make a violin less than his best would be to rob God, who could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio. He was right. God could not make Stradivarius violins without Stradivari. Certain gifts were given to that craftsman no other violin maker possessed. In that same vein, there are certain things YOU can do that no one else can. Perhaps it is parenting, or constructing houses, or singing, or encouraging the discouraged. There are things only YOU can do, and YOU are alive to do them. In the great orchestra we call life, you have an instrument and a song, and you owe it to God to play use them sublimely.

(From “The Applause of Heaven”) Lord God, you have made us unique and individually with our own instruments to praise you and to tend to those you have placed before us to care. Help us to recognize our gifts and tune and play them as you gifted us with them. AMEN

I hope this finds you well and do not be discouraged as we will weather this storm together.

Deacon Nancy Trimble