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I Can Do Nothing Apart from God |
2005-09-01 |
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We have been blessed with a beautiful new organ at the new American
Lutheran Church. We dedicated it on Sunday morning, and the service
included a children's sermon. We had some of the pipes we had saved from the organ in the old church which varied in size from a pencil to over six feet in length. We showed the children what each of those pipes sounded like by blowing into them and then having David Salmen, the organ builder, play that note on the new organ. Blowing on one little pipe doesn't make much of a sound, but all the pipes on the organ play together they produce beautiful music. At one point in the sermon I tried to blow into a big six foot long pipe. No sound came out. Even though I am a runner and have pretty strong lungs, and blew as hard as I could, I did not have the power or lung capacity to produce enough wind to produce even a small sound from that big pipe. When David played that note on the organ, it almost made the place shake because the note was so deep and powerful.
That little unsuccessful attempt to produce a sound by blowing into a
huge organ pipe was a good illustration of my predicament as a sinful
human being. I do not possess the power to successfully blow into that pipe, no matter how hard I try. What the organ can do easily, I cannot do at all. I do not possess the power to overcome sin and death, any more than I can blow into a huge organ pipe and produce music or stand on the shore of the Gulf of Mexico and blow Hurricane Katrina back out into the ocean. Only God, who has given me the breath of life, and who has breathed into me the Holy Spirit, possesses the power to do anything. Apart from Him, I can do nothing. God works powerfully in each of us to perform great things, just like the organist uses the power of the organ and all the pipes to move us with wonderful music.
May God bless you as He saves you from death through the power of the crucified and risen Christ and continues to do wonderful things in your life every day by the power of his Holy Spirit.
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