In marching band/drum corps, a lot of what goes on has to do with trust. You play your part and march your part of the drill and hope that everyone else does their part well.
Today it suddenly struck me that marching band is a good example of what it means to be a Christian. I had never really thought about it until I went to my high school’s special exhibition for the parents at the end of band camp tonight. It rained while they were supposed to do their show, so we went into the gym instead, and the band just stood still and played through the music. Well, just as they were getting ready to play the fight song, lightning struck. The drum line played the roll off: Dut dah crash! Dut dah crash! Drrrrr dut dah crash! And suddenly the lights were out, right as the band began playing. Now, this is a high school marching band. Lowerclassmen make up the majority of the band. The expectation in this situation—attempting to play the fight song in a pitch black gymnasium—is for the whole band to freak out, minus a few calm people. Well, to everyone’s amazement, the whole band continued playing. The band has only had the music for the fight song since Tuesday. Of course, some of the upperclassmen had it memorized because they played the same part last year, but a lot of people had never seen their part before Tuesday. Yet, they had enough of it memorized, and they were confident enough that they were able to continue playing along with the drum line keeping the tempo, even though they couldn’t see the drum major.
So it hit me as I was driving home that that situation is just another one of God’s ways of showing that He has everything planned out perfectly, and that everything works according to His will. Just as the band continued to play, doing their own part to the beat of the drums, trusting that everyone else would do the same, we also live by faith according to the beat of God’s heart, trusting that the rest of the body of Christ will do the same. And even on the field while marching, the marching band continues to march blind, unable to see anything behind them. They keep their eyes forward and let the people behind them take care of themselves. In the same way, we press forward toward the goal Christ has set before us, and we leave our past behind to take care of itself. We remember the past so that we don’t backtrack and run into it again, but we never look back, always continuing forward.
Being a band geek, I just had to share this. It’s cool how God uses everything to prove His existence and to show His people how to follow Him.
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