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Monday 7 September 2015

On Saturday two days ago, what you could call a 'worship disaster' happened.

Close to the transition to the song 'Good to Me', one of the strings of my guitar gave way. It didn't gave way cleanly and it got in the way of the other strings, effectively muting them so my guitar was rather unplayable at that moment. (The idea of how just one 'member' of the guitar strings failing could affect and lead to the rest of the strings not working brings to remembrance a certain verse to me). At that moment, I just felt sian and thought, 'Man those strings were new', rather than going on to full panic mode (maybe if I was new to serving that could be the case). Switched guitars while Elissa led the congregation to sing acapella, but then we were plagued with persistent, intrusive feedback problems. That however, still didn't stop everyone from worshiping and praising God.

I didn't realize this until thinking back, how fitting this lyric from the song is.

"Though fires burn all around me, I'll praise You my God"

Yes, even though fires (in this case, technical audio problems) may burn all around us, we can still, by the grace of God, give praise. Even as I'm moving on to academic week 5 of this semester -and my fires come in the form of piling assignments, extremely difficult concepts to grasp, trying to survive the hectic workload, etc. - , I'll praise God for His goodness. For the blessings in my life and how He holds it all together. Certainly, academics and achievements are not all there is to this life. May God continually remind me of these truths.

@ 1:42 am