Is your musical seed still in the barn?

 

Is your musical seed still in the barn?

Haggai 2:19a, Is the seed yet in the barn? 

This verse from the book of Haggai may seem to be a strange portion of scripture to use for a devotional thought for today.  How could seed in a barn possibly have any relevance to a Christian musician? 

       How does seed get into a barn?  As you well know, seed never comes with a barn when it is constructed.  Someone has to place it in the granary.  Someone has to till the soil, plant the seed, cultivate or spray the plants and fertilize the soil.  After the grain is mature someone has to harvest the seed and store it in the barn.

       How did you get a start musically?  Many Christian musicians are the product of a lot of spiritual and musical cultivation.  It was my home church that gave me a start musically.  It was also my mother and father who provided the money and took me to my music lessons.

       Very few Christian musicians are self-made musicians.   Someone cared, prayed, encouraged, and provided ministry opportunities.  As a result, many of us are loaded with training and practical music ministry experiences and music education.  We owe others a great debt. Furthermore we owe God an eternal debt of gratitude and responsibility to train others for His Kingdom.  We need to make sure that our musical seed is not sitting idly in our barn.  God does not provide for us so that we can, musically speaking, get all we can so that we are able to “can” all we get.  God gives to us so that we can get all we can and give Him all we get.  So, we as Christian musicians need to be sure that our life is about taking the precious musical seed and planting it in the fertile soil of  people’s lives.

       I do not want to face my Savior, who gave his all for me, with a barn full of musical seed that I was too lazy to plant in the fertile soil of young Christian musicians.