But the Lord said
to him, “Go, for he is a chosen instrument of mine to carry my name before the
Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
Acts 9:15
As I was praying last night God really laid this verse on my heart and
hit me with a beautiful and hard truth. Now if you read this at first glance
you might be thinking what can you really learn from this verse. To give you some
back ground this is what God was speaking to Ananias after the conversation of
Paul, God was telling Ananias to go to him because God has a specific task for
him. But what I want to focus in on is the word instrument, now when you think
of instrument you can associate it with many things music, cooking, science, medical,
and many other things. All instruments have a purpose and a design if used the
right way and correct way, you can’t expect a doctor to use violin to perform
open heart surgery. If you don’t have any musical talent then I would suppose
trying to play a flute or any other musical instrument for that matter would
not work out to well for yourself or for any other person for that matter. See an
instrument is only good, if the person using the instrument knows how to you
use it properly and correctly.
As you see from the above verse
God was telling Ananias, Paul was his chosen instrument you see Paul had spent
much of his life thinking he was using his life to its full purpose but really
it was what the Bible describes as a clanging symbol. Now think about it Paul
had just radically had his life changed not too long ago on the road to
Damascus and God was saying he is my chosen instrument. Most of us would say now God are you sure he
is your chosen instrument? Because Paul you know he is not that great and he
has done some pretty bad things. I would submit that just like Paul, our lives
are God’s chosen instruments as well. But here is the hard truth, we view
ourselves as the master instrument player of our lives and yet we are not being
used the right way or reaching our full potential.
Or here is another truth you might look at your life and say God you
can’t or want use me because I just don’t have much to offer or my live is
unusable. But I would submit that just like the conversation of a lying,
arrogant, murder there are some things only Jesus can play and get the most out
of. Like I stated earlier an instrument is only good if the person using it
knows how and can use it better than anyone else let God use your life and watch
how beautiful it sounds because I promise you nobody can use it better then
Jesus. Paul went on to write half of the New Testament and after Jesus was
probably one of the most well-known people associated with Christianity so let
me ask you this, what can God not do with your life if you let him?
-Lance
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