Tune up your life!

 

I love music.  It makes my heart sing.  At least, it does when it is the right notes at the right times.  We have all listened to a recital or a concert where the notes are wrong, or the squeak and squawk, or they are just out of sync.  It is not pleasant to sit through and I always feel bad for the person performing. 

I have a guitar that I am hoping to have more time to play soon.  It gets out of tune for different reasons.  Sometimes, it is because it is sitting there for too long without being played.  Sometimes, it is due to a bad string.  Sometimes, it is because the peg won't hold and needs to be fixed.  There are different reasons in life that make that guitar out of tune when I need it to be in tune. 
Our lives are just like that.  Different things make us out of tune with the gospel.  It can be the words and actions of others, the lack of participation in ourselves, the lost opportunities, the lack of effort, or the failure to study and ponder.  Pretty much anything that blocks us from living a righteous life can prevent us from being in tune ourselves. 
Most things are totally within our control to change.  We just have to realize that they need to be changed and then step up and work on them.  We need to be willing to put the effort into following God's plan, instead of our own.  We need to lose ourselves in His service and teachings.  Basically, we need to tune ourselves up to be doers of the word and not hearers only. 
We need to live our lives for Him.