Recently, I attended a concert in D.C. with a few youth from my church. Having a brother who owns a professional sound company, I have seen my share of concerts. And it struck me how they all tend to be the same. If you've seen one light show, you've seen them all. Most big acts are going to the computerized lighting systems where the lights move and produce multiple colors and shapes.
Most concerts follow a similar format where the main act gets the maximum power as the show builds. A good sound guy always leaves room in the main speakers to give the headliner a little something extra at the end. The bands all start to look alike after a while. The only real difference is the music and the lyrics. And much of that is copying from the music geniuses that went before you.
Then, I stopped to think about a concert in comparison to God's creative masterpieces, such as a night's sky. Every night God produces a different spectacle for mankind to see. He does it effortlessly causing people to gaze in wonder. Yet even the sky can become old news. Man is never content to enjoy something. We tend to look for something more, something new. We want the concert to be bigger, faster, louder. We want more causing us to never enjoy what we have. While we may be living in the moment we are always wishing for something better in the future. We never get what we want because we don't know how to enjoy what we have. That is the game that the devil wants us play. But God wants us to enjoy the present being free from the past and confident in who holds the future. Jesus modeled out what it means to walk in the present via the light of eternity. More Christians should live in the moment. Afterall, that's what Jesus did. He just had a different understanding of what it means to truly live.
