Piano-Moving and Proper Priority of God, Wife, Children, Church, Community, and Nation

Why are you going all the way to Northern California to pick up a piano?

God, wife, children, church, community, nation...in that order.

Currently, our nation is on life support. If you think our families and country will be revived without God, you haven’t been paying attention.

Most people probably think I went to pick up this 472 pound out of sentimentality and romantic pleasure…this played a role…however that role was small. (never underestimate the power of sentiment and romance)

First and foremost, our family worships the only One who is worthy of worship—Our Triune God. We do this daily with Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, as well as scripture, prayer, catechisms, and good conversations. Learning how to sing a note of praise can be helped tremendously by hearing that note played, a piano works great. Without proper worship, we will worship something else, and if it is material, self, or a human, we will watch our peoples shrivel up and die just as any finite material or human does.

Second, my wife grew up with this piano, and if I am to love my wife the way Christ loves the church, than I need to continually die to my own selfish desires. Like the selfish desire to not drive 14 hours each way, hoist this thing up into my truck, and move this big, heavy, awkward object into our living space. Not to mention wanting to selfishly spend time, energy, and money on other things that I think are cooler, like guns, ammo, fitness equipment, and outdoor projects.

Third, my children will inevitably learn another language (music) to worship the Lord, to express their emotions, and enrich their lives. This will help them determine truth, understand story, express love, and bring that truth and love into our fallen world and nation.

Fourth, the local church is what communities should look to when we need truth, love, morality, and righteousness, which is to say Christ. The church will flourish when there is an intelligent, hard-working, Lord-worshiping congregation in fellowship every Lord’s Day. We know that our church can help our community through worshiping the Lord together and honoring His Word through prayer, reading of scripture, and singing joyfully to the Lord, and some of those moments have happened and will happen right here in front of this piano.

Fifth and finally, our nation needs families spending intentional time together glorifying God and enjoying Him forever if we are to make it through these tumultuous times. Without God as our anchor grounding truth, love, morality, and value, we will spin out into relative truths and morality that say “up is down” and “down is up.” Without Christ we are lost in our own depravity, pretending to have knowledge and wisdom, which digs shallow graves for ourselves and our children.

You don’t have to move a piano across half the country, but we do need to wake up to the reality that we are drowning, and there is only one savior. His name is Jesus Christ, and the proper worship of Him, establishes right relationship in marriages, families, churches, communities, and ultimately our nation.