God has been prompting me to remember how He has worked out His perfect plan in my life all along. By that, I mean teaching me how to play the guitar.

I have never considered myself as being ‘gifted’ with the gift of music. I was made to learn the piano when I was a child (thank God for my parents). I hated it, but they didn’t allow me to give it up. Eventually, due to some circumstances in my life and my family, my piano lessons stopped when I was in grade 5. I was certainly no gifted pianist as I could only play medically and only when I had the scores in front of me. Talking about singing, I was certainly no Josh Groban either. I liked to sing, no doubt, even tried my hand at ‘talent-times’ but never made it past the first round. Thus, it seems that music is not one of the paths that God has chosen for me to take and was the farthest thing in my mind.

Then one day, by some strange coincidence, God changed a certain department of my life, the music department particularly, and my life was never the same since.

I remember vaguely that it involved one of my secondary school friends, one who was quite talented in music. He played the guitar quite well and was often involved in leading praise and worship in Christian fellowship. I cannot remember clearly, but due to some particular reason, he had to get someone to babysit his guitar for him. He was mentioning it and just at that moment, the inspiration came to me that it might be fun to have a guitar and to try my hand at it. Thus I volunteered and the very same day, I handled the first guitar in my life. I was eager to learn as it was something very new and thus I worked hard at picking up the basics in the short period of time that I had the guitar in my home. In my mind, I had assumed that it would be just a fleeting passion and I didn’t have any qualms about giving it up when the initial interest dies off. Well, it never did.

By God’s divine arrangement, just after I had barely mastered the few basic chords to sing the most basic songs, I was given the opportunity to Bible Study with a small group of my friends who had just become Christians. I had always loved to praise and worship since young and thus, I badly wanted to have praise and worship before we started each Bible study session. With no one in the group knowing any songs or guitar, I decided to lead with my guitar using what basic skills I had. To cut a long story short, that process of leading worship and learning the guitar never stopped ever since.

I am now a worship leader in my church and though there maybe low moments, but I can truly say that I thoroughly enjoy leading worship with my guitar. I’m not sure when I discovered my calling, but I now know for sure, that this is what God had intended for me to do since I was born. Don’t be mistaken, I am still no genius on the guitar or at singing (no miracle yet in these areas), but God has still decided to use me in this manner despite the fact that I’m not the best at playing the guitar or singing. But I have been utterly and tremendously blessed all these years that I have been leading worship from small groups to fellowships to churches. There is a joy and a passion that springs forth from within me when I take my guitar and help others including myself, enter into God’s presence.

Thus, I hope you can now see why I am truly so amazed at how perfect God’s plans are. From that very first divine appointment with my friend’s guitar, I believe that He had already seen all this happening even though I hadn’t the vaguest idea about what was to come. I seems almost as though I wasn’t even needed in the equation as it seemed so non-deliberate on my part, but how things have just fallen into place, sometimes just leaves me speechless. Sometimes, I cannot help but wonder, how my life would have changed if I didn’t volunteer to babysit the guitar for my friend. Would all this have come to pass? I’m not sure, but what I know for sure, is that God knows His plans for us and they are perfect. O, what great joy, we as sons and daughters of God have, to know that He has our destinies in His hands and they are all unimaginably wonderful. Therefore, we do not need to fear where our lives take us if we have our eternal God looking out for us and continually guiding us and prodding us along the perfect plan that He has in store for everyone of us.