The Master's Hands

Ecclesiates 3: 11 says. “Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time. He has planted eternity in the human heart, but even so; people can not see the whole scope of God's work from beginning to end.

Growing up, I remember one of the pastors of our church use to sing a song called, “The Touch of the Master's Hands”  This song was originally a classic poem by Myra Brooks Welch, It tells of an old violin being auctioned away. The crowd was thoughtless. The violin was battered and scared, and the auctioneer did not expect to get much out of this old violin. He started the bidding low. “A dollar, then two dollars. Only two dollars????

Suddenly from the back of the room, a gray haired man steps up to the stage. He takes the old violin in his hand. He starts to loosen the stings. He then begins to play the old violin. It is a melody of complete sweetness. An angelic sounds pours out of this battered old violin. The crowd is charmed and overwhelmed the sound of this old battered violin.

When the bidding resumed, the old violin sold that day for three thousand dollars.

The poem continues by saying, “ By many of man with a life out of tune, all battered and scared with sin. Has been auctioned off cheap to the thoughtless crowd. “

Have you seen such a person recently? All he needs it the touch of the masters hand. God is not willing to let anyone perish, but wants everyone to come to a place of repentance.
Next time you see someone all battered and scared do not turn away. Reach out in love. God wants to use us to touch those people's lives.

Lord help us to be your examples and to see the beauty in all things, even where we can't see any.