God has given you a wonderful gift, a great talent, your skill with rhythm. What are you doing with that skill? Perfecting it? Practicing it? Keeping it locked away in a cupboard? Showing off? I think, sometimes, we focus so much on the gift, we forget the Giver! We get carried away with all the excitement, the passion of it all, our drums begin to become more important than anything else. Our focus drifts from the Giver…to the gift. And so the gift becomes our tool for our gain, for our pleasure only.

What a sad place to be in, obtaining all the glory for yourself and giving none to God.

Now, don’t get me wrong here. When your job is drumming and percussion (you lucky dude!), if you acknowledge God as your provider and the reason you can do what you, that’s cool. Your heart is right. It’s when you deny God with your actions, when it’s all about yourself and your ambitions; that’s when you’re on shaky ground as a Christian.

There must be a reason God gave you the gift that he did. Did you ever consider that maybe it was for His glory and not yours?

Psalm 37:4
“Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.” [NIV]

Matt 6:33
“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.” [NIV]

Exodus 20:3
“You shall have no other gods before me.” [NIV]

How does looking at it this way change the way you approach the use of your gift?