I’m being prepared, every day, for a mission, my calling, and so are you. What that mission is exactly I don’t know for sure, but I know the experiences and the talents and interests God has given me, and I could make some guesses, but God only knows what exactly my calling is. It definitely has something to do with music, wherever that would bring me, and probably has something to do with travel, and ethnic differences. Maybe, again, I’m not all knowing, and I’m sure you can testify, whoever you are. I’ll start off with God’s leading me to music. It’s been an odd journey that has been a lot of fun, and has shown me a lot. I’ve been listening to music ever since I was a kid, and have continued listening into my teenage year, and I doubt I’ll stop, I’ve seen God’s preparation on a smaller scale than my life, through piano lessons. Yes. Piano lessons. I hated piano, I would never tell that to my piano teacher, but I did. As the ever-wise Jon Foreman says it “I played the piano, but soon I realized there were no piano players in Led Zeppelin, so I picked up the guitar”, that was basically my scenario, except i realized that information about a year before I was allowed to quit piano, but looking back, I would probably suck as a guitarist if I hadn’t taken piano. I can see how God’s working a bit now too, me being taught guitar by a recording/mixing engineer is a huge benefit to my musical skill set, and has influenced my interests. Also, numerous musicians I have never met have influenced me too, especially the guys from Switchfoot. Their perspective on secular vs sacred music has really helped me to realize a bit about myself. Here’s the short version of what I’ve learned there: “You would never listen to music labeled ‘Buddhist’, nor would an atheist listen or follow music labeled Christian. Secular Music is a great medium in which religions can reach each other, all religions are allowed in the secular music category as long as religion isn’t a super big part of your music.” Really, to me religion is, but I generally write songs about life experiences that anyone from any religion could relate to. People should want to be Christian because they see our love for others, not by how our music sounds. I want to draw people into Christianity by example. I want them to see that their life is missing something. Ok. Enough about music for now. Lets move on to missions. It’s been kind of weird because I don’t think my calling is necessarily a missionary like my Aunt and Uncle (committed to serving 2 years in the poorest country in the world, so far), sure, I hope to hang out with my family in the Philippines for a month or two or three in the next two to three years, but rather tour the world and meet people’s hearts through creative mediums. Over the course of my life God has put people in my life that have given me a heart for different cultures, skin tones, and just differences in general. Differences are a beautiful thing. He’s given me awesome people, awesome opportunities, connections, experiences. He’s given me so much, more than I could ever write in one blog post. If you’d like to hear more, just let me know! I’d be happy to share more! Thanks for taking the time to read this! This is such a small part of my story! Can’t wait to writethe next chapter!
Until Next Time!
Jacob H.
