A Drop in the Bucket

Have you ever visited New York City?  My husband and I visited some family in Midtown who have a rooftop garden.  One morning, we climbed to the rooftop and made a game of throwing snowballs off the roof.  When we walked downstairs, we looked around to see evidence of the snowballs.

Interesting thing about snowflakes – according to the Weather Channel, it can take up to an hour for a snowflake to fall from a cloud to the surface of the earth.  It didn’t take that long for our snowballs to reach the ground, but a snowball from the roof and a snowflake from a cloud meet a similar fate – they crash and melt!

You might be wondering what in the world does this have to do with worship leading.  Have you ever felt like a ‘drop in the bucket?’  Have you ever felt what you do doesn’t seem to matter?   Do you feel like your songs just crash and melt?

The ‘evidence’ of what we do each and every Sunday morning isn’t found mounted on a wall, or, in most cases, broadcast over the airwaves.  When we do well, our song remains in others’ hearts, and in our hearts, long after the music stops.  What can we experience that can be more lasting than to come into the presence of God, and to allow Him complete freedom to change us?  Although our lives are like grass which will fade, or snow which will melt, the Word of God expressed through us and others will change the world and will continue forever.