new guitar strings

I have been playing with the worship team here at Cornerstone since we got here. I haven't played my electric guitar for years and it has been even longer since I have played with other people like this. I was enjoying playing with them but I didn't feel like I was doing very well. It always sounded like I was playing alittle off and I didn't sound very good. I want to be on the worship team, but I was thinking about steping down because of how poorly I was doing. Then yesterday when I left the coffee shop I decided to stop by a music store just to look around and play with stuff. Everything I saw that I wanted was way to expensive, but I was in the store for an hour and had ask the sales people some questions about things so I kind of felt like I really should buy something. So I went over to the guitar strings and found a cheap pack and bought them. I went back to the church and put them on my guitar and tuned it up. Right away I thought it sounded better than it had. Then last night we had worship practice, it sounded so good with the other instruments. It wasn't like I was playing out or anything... it was just like it fit in.

I was ready to quit because it didn't feel right but all I needed was a $2 pack of strings. I wonder how many other times I have walked away from something that didn't feel right when if I had just tweaked some things and made a little investment I could have seen it turn into something beautiful.

Those old strings had been on that guitar for over a year. They were stiff and stretched out and they just wouldn't ring out. The new ones are bright and vibrate and sound great. I pray that I am constantly aware of the strings inside of me. That when they start to get stiff and dead that I will take the time to change them out. I know they will eventually... I just pray that I would be aware when they do and that I would take the time to sit down with God and fix them together.