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David Delgado
We all have stories. I would not presume that mine is
different than most. It is a simple story about incredible grace.
I have always loved music. I always wanted to play piano. I would often go to church as a young boy and wait until they were all done for just a chance at touching the piano. I never got to take
lessons, for whatever reason it was not possible for me to do so.
In high school I started taking an advanced music theory class. This class and my
teacher were a gift from God. They gave me my voice. Through this class I learned what music was made up of and also discovered a gift for writing
music and was given the opportunity to write the class song for graduation.
The chorus goes like this:
Listen to your heart
It knows the way
It knows the path
that you'll be traveling someday
Listen to your heart
and do what it tells you
Let nothing stop
you and you'll get there someday
You will get there someway
For the next four years I did just what my song said. But anyone who has lived a little bit longer than
a teenager can see the problem with this thought. Our hearts are deceitful.
They lead us astray sometimes. I listened to my heart and followed my
emotions and ended up living a lifestyle that I am not proud of.
My life I built on sand was quick to swallow me up. Everything I thought I knew about life came crashing in on me.
I searched everywhere I could think of for some sense of spiritual wholeness.
I tried to payback my debt of sin that I knew I had. Then I found spiritual wholeness at the age of 22 when I realized I could never pay my debt of sin.
I found out it was already paid on the cross of Calvary.
I think the hymn writer Horatius Bonar said it best when he wrote:
All that I was, my sin, my guilt, my death was all my own.
All that I am, I owe to thee, my gracious God, alone.
I had always accepted God on my terms and only as far as I felt comfortable.
It was not till I came to grasp with my deep need, my own sin, that I could finally accept the free gift that He alone offers. There is hope for the hopeless, rest for the weary and healing for the hurting. That is why I sing. He gave me a new heart. He changed
me and forgave me. I am forever in his debt, because he paid mine.
God has restored my life and given me more than I could have imagined.
It may sound foolish, but I finally found what I was looking for. It was not things, music, money, relationships or even me. It was God. This is why I do what I do.
Not to repay anything, just in gratitude.
David Delgado
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