Typical Tune: AZMON
On any given Sunday, all around the world, preachers will preach, choirs
will sing, praise teams will produce music, prayers will be lifted aloud, teachers
will lead small-group Bible studies, someone will share the gospel that another may hear it for the first
time. And none of these can do it alone; they all need the some assistance.
Our gracious Master, God, intends to be the helper of those
who proclaim the gospel in church buildings great and small, ornate and
simple, long-established or store-front. The danger – yea, even the scary part
- is when folks stand before others to expound on the tenets of the faith
without first asking God’s backing – his undergirding.
The Broadway Show Les
Miserables features a wonderful song “On My Own.” It is one of many
show-stopping melodies. Some of us who serve as worship leaders join Eponine’s
sentiment and think we can do this sacred task on our own… that our talents and
perhaps our education will carry us through. Under our own power, we are
powerlessly ineffective. The right words may be spoken, the exact notes may be sung
to the proper rhythms – but they become as sounding brass and tinkling cymbals.
They become full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Just because someone shakes your hand and says, “Good job
today,” doesn’t mean a whole lot to any of us when we realize that we have gone
it alone—on our own.
In public worship and in personal evangelism… at every turn
in life’s road, we need to constantly be calling out for assistance, crying out
for help as we proclaim the goodness of God.
Don’t wait until you are in hopeless distress to send up an S.O.S.
Today and every day: My
gracious Master and my God, assist me.
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