Does God have a sense of humor or what?

This Sunday's worship was rather unusual, to say the least. We had a pretty good start. Melody lead everyone in worship by talking about her experience in Spain and tying it in with what we call The LOVE Chapter (1st Corinthians 13:4-7). After she prayed, it was time to start playing! Boy, was everyone in for a surprise (including me).

The second I picked up my guitar and started strumming it, I realized that it was out of tune. People were already standing up, so they just continued to stand there and waited for me to finish tuning my guitar. It was a little embarassing, and it kind of got me flustered. I was definitely thrown off. This isn't how Sunday worship is supposed to start off. After getting my guitar tuned, I finally started playing the intro with the song and was trying my best to try and "play it cool".

Uh, yeah. That didn't work.

Right from the bat...the first couple of seconds was COMPLETELY horrible. May I repeat...it was horrible, and I was horrified. haha. But I continued to play anyway, and along came all the mistakes that could possibly happen. The song that we were singing was coincidentally (note the italics) "From the Inside Out" by Hillsong United, so you can imagine the irony when we started singing the first line...

"A thousand times I've failed..."

and then EVERYONE bursts out in laughter.


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Before the worship team starts to play on Sundays, we always pray before-hand that God will be glorified and that He will show up. That His presence would fill the place. This Sunday, God showed up in the most unexpected way that anyone could ever have imagined. He reminded us that even though we try to control things, and try to plan them to go as smoothly as we can, He is still the one who has the ultimate control. He is the one who is in the position of power.

In the midst of our human imperfections (especially my guitar playing), we are reminded of God's grace. We are reminded of the tiny speck that we are in comparison to His greatness. Even then, God still chooses to love us. He decides to use us no matter how many times we've failed.

This is why we sing.

"A thousand times I've failed
Still Your mercy remains.
And should I stumble again
I'm caught in Your grace.

Everlasting
Your light will shine when all else fades.
Never ending
Your glory goes beyond all fame."