Permission To ShineSample

Get Out From Behind It

I remember the day clearly. The rehearsal hadn’t started yet but I had run down to the chapel to get myself set. I needed to get the keyboard set up and ready for the rehearsal. We were halfway through learning a new song and the choir sounded good.

I was excited, running over the patterns in my head and there he was. He stood there for a moment with his head tilted to the side. He smiled and his bushy mustache rose at the sides like window blinds. I acknowledged his presence and he called me over.

“Bobby,” he began, “I’ve just been impressed to say something to you.”

“Uh oh. I’ve been signed up for something I don’t wanna do...” - that’s where my mind went.

He said, “I see you playing for the choir and for these groups on campus. But I see something else.  You’re hiding. You're hiding behind the keyboard when you should be out in front...leading.”

Busted. I didn’t know it, but I had been hiding my light. Not that playing the keyboard was wrong, my light was leaking through and I hid it.

I hope that story resonated with you. Really. I hope it resonated because maybe you’ve been doing everything you can to hide a light and it’s been leaking. 

You know you’ve been hiding it because it’s been bothering you. You have this nagging feeling like there is something more you should be doing. That’s the clue.

God made you for more and it’s time to own it. 

Stop hiding behind the keyboard. Get out and shine.