Lessons from tuning a Guitar

This happened in 2006, about 5 years ago but yet so fresh in my heart. It was a bright, sunny morning and it was around 8 am. I was getting ready to lead worship in our church in Mysore. Our church was/is a small church about 30-40 people in all. A good percentage of the congregation is floating type as there are trainees from Infosys and others are there in Mysore because of work. While the trainees get posted to different places after their hard-fought training the others move out once they change companies.
Just like every Sunday morning, I took out my guitar to tune it. As I started to remove the dust that is struck in the fret/strings of the guitar, I realized that I have to clean all the dust/sin in every area of my Life before coming to the Lord’s Presence.
Anyone who plays guitar would know, guitar sounds the best when all the strings are properly tuned. There is a nice and simple way of tuning the guitar. It goes like this, the 1st string “E” has to be tuned to the standard tone “E” which I had it in my mobile. The 5th fret of the 2nd string has to the 1st string “E”. The 4th fret of the 3rd string has to be tuned to the 2nd string “B”, the 5th fret of the 4th string has to the 3rd string “G”, the 5th fret of the 5th string has to be tuned to the 4th string “D” and the 5th fret of the 6th string “E” has to be tune to the 5th string “A”. In simple words, the 1st string has to be tuned to the standard note, the rest of the strings in relative to each other.
As I was tuning the guitar, God taught me this. If I have to lead worship, I have to be tuned to the standard note “GOD” and every member of the congregation has to be tuned with each other so that we make a melodious music (meaningful worship) unto the Lord. How wonderful it would be if we all are tuned to each other with “GOD” as our standard note.
Let’s clean our life by the blood that is shed for us on the cross of Calvary and let’s be tuned to God first so that others can also be tuned.

“Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ” I Corinthians 11:1