something greater than me.

I don't know about you, but one of my favorite parts of being a child of God is that I get to be a part of something so much greater than myself. I love that. I love the feeling of community, the sense of belonging. Throughout my college years, my favorite extra-curricular activity was singing in the SBU Chorale. I thoroughly enjoyed rehearsals and concerts alike. Yes, it was terribly hard work a lot of times. Yes, I spent hours locked in a practice room, wood-shedding my part until I could sing it in my sleep. Yes, I stressed out about singing tests. But there was something so powerful about creating a sound formed by 48 voices--something so powerful about creating harmonies and countermelodies that took on a life of their own. Each one of those experiences played a part in developing me. So many of them are beyond words. The encounters reached far beyond time and space. Those moments...they were transcendent.

The beauty of those moments for me isn't the tone quality, the pitch, or the words we sang; the beauty is that in no way could I possibly ever recreate that sound, that frequency on my own. No matter how I tried or what I used, I could never capture the essence of those moments in a solo. The wonder of those timeless transcendent moments was encapsulated by the idea of a body. A body made of many different parts, but all working together for a common good.

As much as I miss singing with the Chorale at SBU, my sole purpose in life was not to sing forever in that choral ensemble. However, the principles that I learned and came to hold so dear in Chorale exist in other facets of life as well. See God didn't create us to live as a soloist in the spotlight. He created us to be a part of His story and to function as a whole.

1 Corinthians 12:12-13 says, "For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body-Jews or Greeks, slaves or free-and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
We are each individually significant, but as a whole we are complete in Christ. Just like a choir is not complete if it lacks an appropriate number of tenors, so the body is not complete without all of its parts.

Right now, we have a huge opportunity to act as the body and accomplish something greater than ourselves, something greater than we as individuals can accomplish. Springfield 1 is knocking on our door and I really believe that God can do great things through this event. In fact, I'm trusting and claiming in faith that He will do great things. But what am I doing to see that He does?

Am I praying? Am I asking God to move? Am I looking for opportunities to share about God and invite my friends to come to the rally? Am I operating as a part of the body and working toward the common goal of seeing students come to know Christ? Or am I alone in a corner trying to polish and shine my microphone so that my voice is heard?

So how about it, will you join the choir?
We could really use your voice.