Opus 2025-259: Who Has the Baton?

Have you ever found yourself lecturing God?  Some people only do it when they’re angry and they’re yelling, “Why?”  I find myself going off on these long speeches where no one is listening.  I have some great things to say.  One of the problems is I can’t remember what they were.  Another problem is nobody cares but me.  But I do have a lot of good things to say.

Sometimes I find myself lecturing God on how things should be or what a particular verse means or something like that and I will suddenly get this tap on the shoulder.  It’s God.  He looks at me with that look He has and ask me am I preaching to the choir again?  I guess I was.  That would be bad enough if there was a choir, but there isn’t.  There’s only a choir Director and me.  I am not the Director.  That is God’s role.  I guess that means that I am either in the choir or the entire choir.

Either way I need to be listening to the choir Director and following his baton.  He establishes the rhythm.  He establishes the tempo.  He is the one who sets the volume.  My job is to take the gifts that I have and join them in the celestial chorus.

I need to remember who has the baton.

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