~The Voice~

So I'm sitting here with guitar in hand and just playing around. Singing, doodling on the guitar and I'm loving it....a lot :) and for some odd reason I stopped and thought to myself "Wow. I'm playing the guitar and singing..."
This may sound completely weird and random, but I never actually stopped to think about how awesome it is to have that fantastic gift of music. I mean the way God designed us is phenominal. Like, vocal cords for instance; we use them every day to talk, sing, scream, make funny noises, etc...but HOW we talk, scream, and sing still blows my mind. I still can't fully comprehend the design of the voice and how we are able to make sound. The brain sends a signal to the throat, the vocal cords mesh with each other and air moves through. That's pretty much how we make sound; at least to my knowledge. I don't know all of the in-depth details of it all yet, but isn't that neat though? God created us in such a phenominal way that we are able to make sound with muscle and air.....I just love it.

Don't even get me started on singing....oh my goodness. I looked up some YouTube videos of people singing with a camera down their throat, showing the vocal cords in action. When I watched those videos I thought to myself "wow....what an incredible God". I mean the human body is so complex to us, but it's so simple to God...wow.

Anyway...my whole point in sharing this (other than the fact that I just couldn't contain myself) is that I take my gift for granted too often. I mean yeah I can sing and yeah I love singing for God, but I honestly don't appreciate my gift as much as I should. I hardly ever just thank God for the voice He's given me. I don't practice every day, I feel like I'm stuck in a musical rut BECAUSE I don't practice every day, sometimes I feel like I can sing anything but I honestly can't, and a lot of the time I let people's compliments get to my head so I trick myself into thinking that I don't need to perfect my craft.

Just because God has given me a voice and I can sing well, doesn't mean that I shouldn't try and learn more or further my gift. I need to continue to learn and to practice in order to give God my very best EVERY time I sing.

God has given everyone specific gifts and talents. We all take them for granted sometimes, but honestly we shouldn't because God could easily take our gifts away just to teach us to not take His gifts to us for granted.

God deserves our thanks, praise, adoration, worship, and our best :)