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My Two Cents
by Rev Chuck Behrens
July, 2014
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I remember the first time I
attended the Symphony. It was an outdoor concert in a park and it was
awesome. It was Beethoven's 7th Symphony. Psssssst: If you've never been
to a symphony, let me give you a little advice. Don't leave during the
first few minutes. See, the musicians are tuning up during that time, and
it doesn't sound like anything you'd want to stay for. That's not what the
whole concert is going to be like. You might say to yourself, "Man, if
this is going to be like this, I'm out of here. Is this what I paid for?"
Well, I'll tell you, those first few minutes are not a pretty sound.
You've got all these violins, flutes, etc. playing scales and different
notes and different times. Some of it's on key, occasionally some of it
isn't. It's totally uncoordinated tones. It sounds like musical chaos; not
like a musical concert.
Then suddenly the conductor taps his baton on the music stand. Those
musicians all snap into an all ready position, and the conductor begins
conducting. And all those instruments that were making noise a minute ago
are suddenly together making music--beautiful music.
Romans 8:28-29 reminds us, "And we know that in all things, God works for
the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His
purpose. For those God foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the
likeness of His Son." Or in the familiar words of Rodger McDaniel's King
James Version, "He works all things together for good."
That word that's translated "working together" is the Greek word sunergeò.
We get our word synergy from that. Literally working together, pulling all
these random things together into one harmonious whole.
Now, when I read that in the Greek, this sunergeò-ing taking place, an
orchestra popped into my mind. I mean, God is working on a symphony in
your life; bringing in all the instruments. It's a beautiful masterpiece.
But right now maybe it just looks pretty chaotic. It's more like discord
than harmony right now.
See, this is the symphony countdown. This isn't the end result. This is
the preparation for the playing of the masterpiece. God's preparing all
these separate instruments first. They're tuning up. Things aren't fitting
together yet. He hasn't tapped his baton yet and started conducting it
into one symphony. But it is just like a symphony, so don't leave while
the instruments are still tuning up. Right now God is getting each
instrument of His will ready for you and you ready for each instrument.
The only reason it isn't making sense yet is that it isn't concert time
yet. But it will be.
Ecclesiastes says, "He makes everything beautiful in its' time." In the
book of Exodus the children of Israel had waited for centuries to be
liberated from Egyptian bondage. And then they waited through ten
different plagues. They said, "Moses, when are we getting out of here?"
And Pharaoh had played all kinds of games with them, and it looked like it
would never happen. There had been false starts. There was frustration.
And then on the night of the Passover, God says, "Tuck your robe between
your legs so you can run fast. Don't put any yeast in your bread; it isn't
going to have time to rise." And when it was all ready, the exodus moved
so fast it amazed everyone. They were out in a night.
That's how God often works. It takes a while to get it ready, and then the
heavenly rush of getting it all done when you think there's not even
enough time to get it done. That's how it is with the symphonic processes
of God.
Maybe it looks confusing right now. Maybe it looks like God's not doing
anything, or He's doing something you don't like or you don't understand.
Don't leave the concert yet! God is tuning up all those instruments for
what will eventually come together in one glorious symphony in your life.
And on THAT N O T E,
I'll see you in Church,
Rev. Chuck
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