I listened in disbelief to the car radio as Michael W. Smith’s new song “Above All” played. “Not another one!” I thought. That’s the same title I used on a song I’ve penned ten years ago. Why do I hear the same titles or similar melodies of songs I’ve already written? Was it so obvious a title that sooner or later someone would discover it? Maybe I should start picking out titles that no one could ever come up with like, “The Whale Was Hungry, But He Couldn’t Keep a Good Man Down” or “My Life was Like a Gutter Ball Until you Pinned me Down”. Well maybe not.
As I listened intently to Michael’s’
song on the radio, I notice the quality of his writing. It was far better than my song. He really did put the work into it to
make it excellent. He set it up the
same way I did with what God was above; the earth, the heavens, the ways of the
world, etc. But then Michael went
the extra mile with a nice bridge and a twist at the end of his chorus “He
loved me above all”. This is the
way I see this experience. I may be wrong or right but see what you think.
God gives us the talent and the vision
to accomplish something or write a song for Him, yet if we are not available or
ready to put the work into that vision, God will find someone else to do it If God wants a task done, it will
get accomplished. The question is
will we be the one to give it our best to complete the vision, the goal God has
instilled into us? When God gives
us a title or an idea are we going to put the work into it to make it something
excellent, and then go the extra mile like Michael W. Smith did? Let’s do all of what God intends us to
do. So what about that song of
mine that has the same title? I’ll
probably still use it in the future.
The message is still there.
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