Sound Check

If you've ever watched someone working a soundboard you'll see them adjusting all kinds of  knobs and sliders, tweaking and fine tuning the sound. All of this makes no perceptible difference for most of the people in attendance. But to an experienced audio engineer they can tell when a certain frequency is not quite right. To them it's not as simple as turn the guitar up and turn down the drums.

For most Christians though we are incapable of fine tuning our own volume. Many Christians have a firm grasp on meekness. We can be nice an pleasant, not disturbing anyone and not shaking anything up.We keep the volume to a nice low 3 or 4 Then there is the other extreme, when we go to 11. This is when we start screaming and foaming at the mouth. We accuse so and so of being the anti-christ and this group or that of hating Christians.

There is nothing wrong with going to 11, but why does it always seem to be done in anger? Can't we fine tune our own volume? Can't we let our joy out at 11 and our anger at 3?

Why are we so quiet about what God has done for us but so loud about what we think others are doing to us when what they can do is nothing compared to what God has done?