Learning To Bow

In a remote Swiss village stood a beautiful church known as the Mountain Valley Cathedral. The church was not only beautiful to look at but it also had the most beautiful pipe organ in the whole region. People would come from miles away--from far off lands--to hear the lovely tones of this organ.

But one day a problem arose. Something went wrong with the pipe organ. Musicians and experts from around the world had tried to repair I, but nobody was able to bring back the lovely tone.

One day an old man appeared at the church door and asked to try his hand at repairing the organ. For two days the old man worked in almost total silence. Then on the third day--at high noon--the mountain valley once again was filled with glorious music. Farmers dropped their plows, merchants closed their stores--everyone in town stopped what they were doing and headed for the church. After the old man finished his playing, a brave soul asked him how he could have fixed the organ, how could he restore this magnificent instrument when even the world’s experts could not. The old man merely said it was an inside job. "It was I who built this organ fifty years ago. I created it--and now I have restored it. That is what God is like. It is He who created the universe, and it is He who can, and will, and is in the process of restoring it.

That’s what Jesus wants to do in you and me this morning. We’re broken people, and only the One Who made us can repair us. If you will bow before Him today, He will fix what’s wrong in your life.

Let me conclude with the words of the great preacher Alexander Maclaren, who once urged his congregation to

Set Christ in your hearts on the pedestal and pinnacle that belongs to Him, and then bow down before Him with all reverence and submission. Be sure you give Him all that is His due, and in the love of your hearts, as well as in the thoughts of your mind, recognize Him for what He is—the Lord. Many of us only see a part of the whole Christ. He is our Creator as well as our Redeemer, our Judge as well as our Savior.... Embrace the whole Christ, and see to it that you do not dethrone Him from His rightful place or take from Him the glory due His name. - Alexander Maclaren

That is my challenge to you this morning---to bow low before Jesus Christ. Will you do that today?