Who Do You Play Your Music For?

It seems that sometimes when we need to hear from God the most He is silent. Sometimes God is silent because He wants us to wait on Him and trust him. Sometimes it is because we are so overwhelmed with painful feelings that we shut and lock our doors afraid to be hurt more. When we do this we sometimes lock God out too.

As I was dealing in the past with a broken heart I felt my pain shutting that door. What a blessing it is that God loves us so much that He never stops knocking. I wrote the poem Fatal Mistake when my heart was in pain. I wrote the second poem Play For Me (God's response) when I heard Him knocking. Are you so wrapped up in the pain you are feeling that you can't hear Him knocking?


Fatal Mistake

You’ve played me like a fiddle
Hearing music from my strings
The kind of beautiful music
That only true love brings

But as the melody played
With a passion sweet and clear
I made the fatal mistake
Because I never stopped to hear

That the music I was playing
Came from one and never two
The music I was hearing
Came from me and never you

The fiddle now sits quiet
And the bow lies very still
The music hasn’t played again
And I guess it never will

No never will that music play
With a melody just for you
No never will I ever again
Give anything to you

Because the music that was playing
Came from one and never two
The music I was hearing
Came from me and never you

FaithfulToOne © 2004


Play For Me

One day gazing at the clouds
I heard Heaven’s music play
Humble I fell to my knees
Then I closed my eyes to pray

Dear Jesus, yes I hear you
He said, “Now, pick up your bow.
I want to hear your music
The new notes are seeds you’ll sew”

“It’s time you play a new tune
Playing for one, no not two
The music that I want to hear
Is played for me not yet you.”

The percussion was my heart
My breathing was the strings
When my soul cried out to God
I heard angels flap their wings

Now Heaven was rejoicing
As they heard sweet music play
God said, “Patience wait on Me
You’ll be blessed if you obey.”

“I have searched the world over
For someone to play for you
But first he must play for Me
Before he can ever play for you.”

FaithfulToOne © 2004

2 Thessalonians 3:5
May the LORD direct your hearts
Into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance.