What's Your Grammy?

What's Your Grammy?

"David said to the Philistine, 'You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the LORD Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.  This day the LORD will deliver you into my hands, and I'll strike you down and cut off your  head.  This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.  All those gathered here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the LORD saves; for the battle is the LORD's, and he will give all of you into our hands."

(I Samuel 17:45-47)

Everybody's got one.  One what?  We all have a talent, a gift, a sense of humor, an attribute, "A Grammy," a 'song' that defines us and makes us unique.  Often times, like David, people take one look at us and say, "What makes you think you can do that?"  They told Walt Disney at his first university that he wasn't creative enough; Einstein flunked the first grade  ...  We can find people everywhere who were told they could not or would not do something.  Christians have the opportunity to make what they do count for the highest of all causes, the Lord Jesus Christ. 

Everybody was afraid of Goliath, but suddenly this very young handsome lad shows up and kills this bigmouthed ogre with nothing but a slingshot and a stone.  It's the world's favorite Bible story, but let's look at David's reasoning  ...  He did it so that the whole world would know that there is a God in Israel!  And furthermore, he made the point that everyone would know that it's not by sword or spear that the LORD "saves"  ...  What?  He's "killing" a giant foul-mouthed monster, but He's saying it's so the world will know that God "saves," and not by sword or spear, but that the battle is the LORD's. 

The tricky thing is that "inner motive" of why we want to do whatever we do.  The "song" has a motive, an underlying reason, and God is constantly testing that in us.  What does He want "us" to know?  That's the #1 question; "What's Your Grammy?"  In other words  ...  Where is the song; what is the song; why is the song; who brings the song; and is it even a song?  Huh?  You'll see.

The Lord Jesus Christ

Hmmm, interesting, huh?  David's reasoning sounds just like God to me!  Our Lord kills to save, takes down to lift up, gives to take away, covers to reveal, humbles to exalt, sends us to the valley to climb the mountain, teaches us to lose to get, diminishes to multiply, brings beauty from ashes, sends the fire to cause a flood  ...  Oh Yeah, that's my Lord Jesus!

Abraham

  

Our Brother, Abraham, knows what I'm talkin' about.  He found out that "to sacrifice" means "to gain," that to surrender means he won, that the knife in the hand brings the arm of the angel, that the ram coming up the other side of the mountain is the answer for his side of the mountain, and that God's hurts are God's hidden miracles.  It's all about the beautiful paradoxical mind of the Creator.  To Almighty God, a "song" is way more than a song; it has many little intricate interweavings such as we have never pondered  ...

Esther

Esther, are you more than a beauty queen?  Are you where you are because of divine providence or because you're beautiful, or both?  What has driven your success?  "Have you come to the kingdom for such a time as this?"  We all know Esther's "song;" she saved the Jews from annihilation, and God put her there, but it was up to her to carry it out  ...  God provided the intersection, but she had to take the right road, and her "song" was perfectly and wisely executed.  Why?  She realized that her song was not really "her song" at all  ...

David

David's song started way back in the pasture, where his lonely heart grasped for the bigness of God's heart  ...  and he found it.  It molded who he was; his worship of Almighty God identified who he was in the scope of the world around him.  He found out that his song was the Lord's song, and the Lord's song was his song  ... his song revealed his God.  

A "Grammy" is a trademark for an award given by the music recording industry.  What song do we leave behind in our wake?  The word "music" means: a sound that produces an effect.  We only have 1 life in earth to "produce an effect," to reveal our own personal trademark, to sing our song in such a way that the whole world knows WHO we represent, WHO saved us, WHO we are because of HIM, WHERE we're going, WHY we're going there, and WHO is coming back  ...  So, What's Your Grammy?

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                  PromiseLand Church, Austin, Texas, Pastor Kenneth Phillips)