KneEmail - a devotional by Mike Benson associated with Forthright Magazine
Conductor
PEOPLE OFTEN PAY high prices because of one man in the concert: the conductor...
He enters to the applause of the audience. A hundred instruments are poised by a hundred tense musicians. Each player is prepared to make a special kind of musical response to his beat; each section will produce melodic lines and rhythmic patterns different from the others. It is the conductor who will weave all the differences together and insure that the orchestra keeps faith with thecomposer's intentions. He will establish a standard tempo and a standard volume. He will bring out the solo parts, insuring that the orchestra colors the background in just the right musical hues so that the soloist reaches the anticipated excellence. Without the conductor, the finest musicians and the most expensive instruments produce only inartistic chaos.
THOUGHT: Like the orchestra, a family needs someone to set the tempo. When the tempo has been set and the soloist steps into the spotlight, the conductor gives him opportunity to perform; so does the father. Without an effective father, a family struggles (Gordon McDonald).
KneEmail: "Every day Mordecai walked in front of the harem to learn how Esther was and how she fared" ( Esther 2:11). "Now Esther had not made known her people, as Mordecai had charged her; for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him" ( Esther 2:20).