Drumming

I love drumming…its one of my favorite things to do in this world I’m not the best at it there are a lot of people that are better than me on this gigantic rock of a world but I myself I’m not to shabby. I can hit these drums as hard and as fast as I can and vent out any frustration or any other emotions that are built up inside me. But that’s not why I do it…When I started playing the drums in middle school it was because of Travis Barker and how cool he was and what he represented which was money, cars, girls, and just living the life. I never really had a purpose to play I just did and I didn’t get better I just kinda stayed the same with it. So I thought ehh its not for me and I quit for along time. One day while at Church years later David asked me to play the drums for a Sunday because he heard that I could play from Eli and Eli who was the drummer at the time was leaving that summer for school. So I reluctantly said yes and was really regretting my decision on saying yes after because I was pretty mediocre and I didnt want to embarrass myself in front of everyone. Long story short watching David lead worship like he did and how he lets you know its about leading people to a place with God and how its not about you made me change my perspective on why I should be drumming the weeks after I made that decision I had this burning desire to drum everyday it wouldn't go away even if I played for massive amounts of time. What I realized was because God has blessed me with this gift and he lets me use it that means its not really mine and its his. For the past few months I have kinda drifted away from that idea…I have still been improving and getting more and more solid but its not as rewarding as when I first started. Today in Chapel Dave Williams was talking about taking what you hold in your hands and giving it to God. It hit me bad, and today I made the decision if the day I don’t play for God I’m done drumming because there is no point. So I gave my gift to God and told him I’m drumming for no other reason but to help people find him and relate in a way that listening to a person speak might not have the same effect.. Whether that be in worship teams and band or whatever I just want to use my gift to glorify him. Psalms 150: 5-6 says praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals. Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD. I wrote that on my snare head and it reminds me of why I play and Who I should always play for.