It was almost a year ago I bought him. I am calling him a him because I bought it the day our dear friend went home to be with Jesus. I call it Chuck. It is a cello. It’s a beautiful instrument. I figured since I fiddled, cello wouldn’t be that hard to learn. It doesn’t help either to have a nephew who is majoring in cello. He makes it look so easy. He makes it sound beautiful. He plays in Carnegie Hall. I play in the music room. He plays concertos. I play scales and a few minuets. What is the difference? He is serious. I am interested. He has trained and practiced for years. I am curious and slightly intrigued.
I met someone the other night to buy a 1/2 size violin for my fiddle camps. He told me he is giving me something else that he has had for awhile and he thought I could use better than he. I call it Crash. Crash isn’t as nice looking as Chuck. Crash is called crash because he is in pieces. He is still a cello. He has the potential to look beautiful and play well. Both Chuck and Crash have the same potential. I have potential. But until I fix Crash up and spend lots of time playing, I won’t be nearly as competent as my nephew.
We sat talking the other day about our faith walks. One young man really wants to be a Chuck but he is more like Crash. Believing in God is a step. Buying a cello is a step. Learning to play and making music that is pleasing takes awhile. I tried to remind him that none of us that he looks at and sees the faith walk he wants, got be Chuck the first week. We usually start out like Crash. We are in pieces, we look like we hit a brick wall and we can’t play a song at all because we are not ready: yet. But if we are faithful, if we try, if we work, if we keep practicing, Carnegie hall is possible. Playing a concerto is a real goal. But if we lie on the floor in pieces, we will be useless to God or anyone else.
Proverbs 18:15 “The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.”
An instrument lying on the floor in pieces has no future. An instrument leaning against the piano won’t play either. It takes work, practice, tuning and restoring. Our faith walk is the same. Because it’s not working we don’t pick up Crash. Because we haven’t practiced we don’t sit down with Chuck. Both instruments are capable of Carnegie Hall with the right knowledge and wisdom and lots of practice. So if you know someone who lives like Crash looks, be the one who encourages them to put their life back together with the help and acquiring the wisdom proverbs talks about. In the hands of my nephew, both Chuck and Crash have the same ability to produce beautiful sound. In my hands, well, I will just stick with scales and Minuets for now.
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