In tune and in time

My cousin played the fiddle years back , he began when he was about seven and he was a little feller holding a fiddle and trying to reckon how to grasp the bow

he looked the part was cute because the riddle was an adult one his daddy scraped up the money for somehow . But boy how die when that boy hit them strings with that bow , it sounded like a whining train that had some busted gears and parts in the engine and was simultaneously tugging an out of tune whistle hesr and there it really was an offensive sound

but none the less he was playing the fiddle not well at all in any way but he was what they talked a fiddler at that point. In his mind he thought he should make it sound great and he took to the instruments mechanics , he went and earned some money with us picking cotton for a week and got himself a music book and “a fiddle for dummies “ kind of beginners book and spent some time learning the right information and also practicing the mechanics and rythym of the tunes he was trying to play

He learned sheet music right away what it meant and what was written each symbol the time signatures ect having a banjo myself I had helped him with the sheet music.

after just a short time of that aweful sound he made , you could here and there , hear a tune sort of you could hear short sections hat were in tune and time and rhythm . But then one of those aweful train notes would intervene and just make it so hard to listen to but none the less he was growing in his capacity to play the fiddle d had been a fiddler for out a year now , still got alot of wrong notes and tones but after awhile it became pretty pleasant when he would come by and play some tune song with me or even just solo he had began to write his own beautiful sounding tunes and Melodie’s and had began to offer original sounding orginazstions and rythyms even began to write music at this point

for me it was just a hobby but for him he had a passion for it he’s been a fiddler for almost ten years when I went into service and we eternal of lost our closer connection at that point when I returned he had gone out west to pursue music so I hadn’t seen him for years talked to him a couple times but

when I was about 35 I was drinking alot and was at a honkey Tonk sort of bar house in Memphis and there was this just incredible fiddle player playing on stage I was sitting up at the bar sort of feeling down and out at the time because of my drinking and a relapse I was going through and I wasn’t looking at the musicians but the riddle was just touching my heart it was outstanding I had never heard such beautiful and original well played and written tunes

of course I need not finish the story before you understand who it was when I looked , but the point is that Christianity is much the same you might pick up the fiddle for Jesus and not be able to play note properly but , in his eyes your a fiddler for Jesus already and then as you grow up and pursue and learn the right information ( the gospel ) you start to be able to play prettier tunes and more in time with the heavenly band he’s growing

eventually your just a lifetime fiddler but you’ve grown up alot and matured as one , so the times coming of them strings and bow is more complete and sounds much better to the esrs

If you love Jesus and know that you fail alot still , remember that he’s already with you nd already said he’ll never forsake you , now he’s with you to lead you and lift you when you fail and fall

keep playing that tune of life with gratitude in his name and truly because he loves you and he will refine the music that comes from our hearts and make beauty from ashes and success from failures

God bless Jesus loves us even before we can play a note remember that when some professional is trying to judge you just keep pressing towards the prize trusting the lord

Amen!

“Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them. And he said, A certain man had two sons: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living. And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living. And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want. And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine. And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him. And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet: and bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry: for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭15:1-2, 11-24‬ ‭

our fathers love is beautiful no matter how wrong his son was he was waiting the whole time for his return he saw him before he had arrived a long ways off and he ran to hold his long lost son

notice the son is repenting “ I’m so sorry for what I’ve done please let me come be a servant in your house I’m not worthy but please have mercy father “


But if you notice the father he too busy rejoicing and is just overjoyed get his son remembered home and realized he’s been wrong to leave

God already knows our flaws and the sort on our souls from sin it’s why he came and suffered so greatly on our behalf and why he explores believers so much to do this when they believe because he wants us to have what he’s saying

Remission of those sins and Eternal life

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.”
‭‭John‬ ‭5:24‬ ‭

“I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
‭‭Luke‬ ‭5:32‬ ‭KJV‬‬

air you read Jesus teachings you see they are for those who know and acknolwedge they are sinners Like this this doesn’t appeal to someone who thinks “ I’m righteous and saved “

“For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: ( he’s saying this to his disciples because he knows they aren’t perfect and may need mercy later ) but if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:14-15‬ ‭

The gkory is that he loves us even though we all fell short of our god given purpose to perfectly reflect his image to the world in our words and deeds continually we failed but a father doesn’t give up on his beloved children he heals then and loves them home even when they can’t play a note yet he has to teach them first …..