Playing and singing takes on a new meaning once this truth is understood. Broken can be beautiful when Grace sings the melody. Jesus takes even the worst of sinners to demonstrate grace. Rest in His accomplishment for you and make your boast in Him every chance you get. Wherever you go, before you take the stage, reflect on Christ and His boundless one way love for you as you are – not some future, better, and cleaned up version of you. Your identity is in Christ not in your best days and certainly not in your worst. You may be wretched, but let your response be “thanks be to God through Jesus Christ” in Him there is no condemnation. Wherever you are called to, whether it is in your local community or out of the country, know that you are not a failure but a redeemed and adopted child of God.īefore being a musician, you are His. His death is greater than your flaw, and it is through our broken vessels that His light shines through. It is Jesus who meets a man on his way to persecute the church, knocks him off his horse, and forms a lifelong love affair that changes his identity and life mission which was to testify about the grace of God. It is Jesus who further violated the Sabbath when He told this same man to take up his bed which was considered work, a violation that caused one man to die for doing something as simple as gathering sticks. It is Jesus who goes out of His way to break the Sabbath by healing a man who was paralyzed, not letting him wait another day for his healing. It is Jesus who gives grace to the Prostitute caught in the act and, possibly as she stood naked in front of her accusers who classified her as the most immoral human being to walk the earth, He (the only one without sin) stoops and writes something that causes stones that were meant for execution under the law to fall one by one as her accusers to walked away.
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It is Jesus who fully sees and fully knows a Samaritan (enemy of the Jews) woman at the well who, after encountering Jesus, goes into Samaria and testifies causing many to believe in Him. Your flaw is what qualifies you for His grace upon your life. And the image you hide behind will be the image that you will have to perpetuate. That burden will exhaust you, because the image that you create, you must hide behind. God isn't looking for anyone self-made as my pastor would say. In fact, it is in our weakness that we are made strong and His strength becomes the source that we draw from every time that we serve (2 Cor 12:9). Your flaw does not change God's mind about you. The truth is your flaw does not negate God's grace on your life. For years, the church has made us fearful of being honest about the flaws and failures that we have experienced that is not Christianity. Without sin, there would not be a need for Christ to come as God's rescue plan for humanity. However, musicians are not born with flaws, people are.Īnyone who has been born of a woman has sin within them. Let's be honest 95% of the time the title musician is associated with negative terms. I'm sure as a musician or an artist, there are some skeletons that you would not want anyone to excavate because they could lead to guilt and public shame. I felt as if the whole world knew areas of my life that could only be labeled as failure. I remember when I found myself sitting in church wondering, “What am I doing?” “Broken can be beautiful when Grace sings the melody” – Gwen Smith
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He agreed to share his thoughts on musicians who are dealing with internal struggles. He currently serves as musical director at Northview Christian Church in Dothan, Alabama under Dr. Greg Johnson is a keyboardist, musical director, producer and songwriter who is passionate about communicating God's grace through word and music.