‘Oh, it wasn’t me,’ he humbly said, ‘it was the Lord.’

‘No, it wasn’t that good!’

Some people’s claim to divine inspiration produces such mediocrity that it seems an excuse for laziness or, more likely, a failure to see the hole in the ‘all of God, none of me’ half-truth.

Self must die – sinful independence, pride, selfishness, and trying to earn heaven’s approval. And we must yield everything to Christ, acknowledging that his ways are higher than ours. But to go so far beyond this that we renounce and denigrate or fail to develop our divinely-created mental and physical powers is as unchristian as gnostic heretics who taught that everything physical is of the devil.

Taken from In Tune with God: The Quest for Music Miracles

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