I receive an article this past week that asked the question: “Is your music still in you?” I thought it was a little peculiar so I read the article which began with a quote from Oliver Wendall Holmes who said, “Many people die with their music still within them.” The article continued with a challenge to discover your music which would be your gifts, talents, passion, etc. and don’t let another day pass without playing your music.

2 Corinthians 4:17 (KJV) For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a
far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;

2 Corinthians 4:17 (ESV) For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal
weight of glory beyond all comparison, 

Remember the commercials for Wendy’s Hamburgers where the lady looked at a hamburger
of a competitor and cried, “Where’s the Beef?” I was talking to a pastor friend who was
accused of not preaching grace because he was preaching the whole counsel of God and
not just the accomplishments of salvation by God’s grace. It was as if some in the
congregation were saying, “Where’s the grace?”