However, for some reason, I heard this song this Christmas Season, and started getting misty eyed! This is one of my husbands favorite Christmas songs, so when it came on the Josh Groban Christmas mix, we listened to it - and for the first time, I really LISTENED to the WORDS of this song - and my heart tuned in. Here are the lyrics (minus the "pa-rum-pum-pums"):
Come they told me - a newborn King to see!
Our finest gifts we bring, to lay before the King,
So to honor Him - when we come.
Little Baby - I am a poor boy too.
I have no gift to bring, that's fit to bring a King:
Shall I play for You on my drum?
Mary nodded, the ox and lamb kept time,
I played my drum for Him - I played my best for Him.
Then He smiled at me. Me and my drum.
These words are really hitting me this season. I keep having a picture in my mind of a young boy, wearing rags - dirty, standing on stage at church, with a spotlight on him - looking up to the Lord - playing his drum with all of his heart to worship the God he loves, even though he has nothing else to bring. It grips my heart every time I imagine this scene.
I'm still processing through what the Lord is trying to show me through this, but I think He's trying to speak something significant.
Sometimes I feel like I don't do a very good job of bringing good gifts to the altar of the Lord. I'm not good at giving over my "best" to the Lord. In my selfishness, I like to keep those things for myself. There is something so unique about worship through music - where it is so natural for me to give my best to the Lord. My prayer is that this ability to sing with all my heart to the Lord - giving my all - begins to seep into every aspect of my life, so that when my voice is gone, the worship continues.
It's not even so much about bringing our "best" to the Lord. It's about bring our "all" to the Lord - He wants us - completely - rags and all.
I am so thankful for His grace, and that He loves to accept our offerings of worship - even those offerings that are drenched in tears and dirt.
May we bring our all to Him this Christmas season.
