Can You Do Any Better?
A young boy
complained to his father that most of the church hymns were boring to him — too
far behind the times, boring tunes, meaningless words. His father put an end to
the discussion when he said, “If you
think you can write better hymns, then why don’t you?” The boy went to his
room and wrote his first hymn. This was in 1690; the teenager’s name was Isaac
Watts. “When I Survey The Wondrous Cross”
and “Joy To The World” are among the
almost 300 hymns written by him[i].
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| Isaac Watts |
It is easy to list the things that are wrong
but it is much better to do something about them. In 1st Peter
4:9-10, we read,
“Be hospitable to one another without complaint. As each one has
received a special gift, employ it in serving one another as good stewards of
the manifold grace of God.”
Instead of finding fault, lets us our gifts to
serve. Most people wait for a glossy embossed invitation before they will
volunteer to serve. Instead of that, understand that a need is an invitation to
serve! If you can see a problem well enough to voice a complaint about it than
you have enough reason to go about fixing that problem. The problems we have in
the church do not stem from a lack of talent, but rather in a lack of use of
the gifts we already have.
Why not try to make
better by using your gifts than making it worse by complaining?
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