What is it like to be a Christian musician?

It’s the best feeling on earth.

Before we get started, let’s have our moment of silence. 

At this time, I would like all of us to take a moment of silence and pray to God to help us to become the Christian musician that he wants us to become. Take a minimum of 5 minutes and pray for this. 

Now back to the show

What is it like to be a Christian musician?

I am overwhelmed by emotions just thinking about this topic. 

I have shed many tears trying to be a musician, I have had great victories, I have learned so many aspects about life and living and God through music. 

And I will say that being a musician has brought me closer to God. 

If it wasn’t for music, I would not be with God. 

I remember back when I was in the 6th grade, I was receiving Straight A’s and the occasional B on the REPORT CARDS.

For those of you that don’t know, a Report card in the United States is the average of all of your grades including homeworks, exams, reports, projects, etc. etc. anything that your teacher assigned you, is what is on your report card. 

And an A is the highest grade that you can get. 

Out of the 8 classes that I had to take, I was consistently getting A’s on all of the classes and occasionally getting that one B. 

And so, I was doing well and I had a dream of becoming an engineer of some sort. Either Aeronautical engineer, mechanical engineer, or maybe a professor of math at a university, those were my dreams in the 6th grade. 

And those aren’t bad dreams per se.

But my life was changed in the 6th grade because my dad gave me a guitar, which is something that I had been praying to God for, for the longest time.  

And I didn’t think much of it then, I said to myself that I was going to play guitar all throughout high school and become great at it, while studying really hard to go to college. 

But before that happened, it was strange because I said in my heart in those days, that I was going to put God second in my life. 

And I had these grand dreams of going to college, and studying really hard, and being an upstanding citizen who never drank or smoked and went to church but had God in second place in his heart. 

Now, I knew better at the time than to put God in second place in my heart, but I wanted the luxuries that came with being an engineer or professor at a university. 

I wanted the prestige or status that came with having a Bachelor’s degree. 

And honestly, I wanted to have God in my life, but not really. I wanted to go to church and listen but not be one of those “crazy Christian’s” that you see on T.V.

And then the guitar came into my life. 

God came into my life. 

I’m not calling the guitar God, I’m saying that God intervened that day by blessing me with a guitar. 

And honestly, I don’t know what happened, but my immediate focus became God. 

My immediate focus became living for God. 

And I said to myself as I had that cheap guitar from Wal-mart in my hand, I said to myself, “God has been good.” 

And I cried a little because it was something that I wanted for a long time. 

And I said to myself, “the Lord is the one who blessed me with the guitar.”

And I said, “I have to give it to him.”

And then from there on out, everytime I practiced the guitar, I prayed to God to make me an excellent musician. 

And I prayed to God to give me strength and patience to endure the tests to become a musician because the Lord had put it in my heart that music was going to take a long time to do. 

And it did. 

And I begged God in those days that if I ever became something good with music, then to help me to use it for him.

And sure enough, years later, the Lord made me the musician that I am. 

And I will say that music was when God intervened in my life. 

Of course in those days, I was still not committing completely to God, so I was listening to worldly music, but in my heart, I kept on saying as I played the solo to stairway to heaven, as I played the solo to Sweet Child o’mine, as I played the most difficult songs you have ever heard on the guitar, and rapped Look at me now by Chris Brown, and sang in the hardest parts and lead the musicians in my school, I said, this is God who is doing this! 

And I said, This is none other than God who is doing this. 

In those days, I actually had figured out how God could teach me how to do all of those advance things without listening to worldly music, but I still didn’t want to do that because I still hadn’t committed to God completely. 

It wasn’t until Junior year that I really changed my mind. 

And I remember I won the biggest award in music for my school in Junior year the Most Outstanding Music student award for being Pit leader of the marching band, Section leader of the Jazz band, 1st guitar in the guitar ensemble, 2nd tenor in the choir, scoring a 100 in the most difficult music class in the entire school(which is music theory) being an outstanding rapper, being able to play bass and piano, and performing the solos at the guitar concerts, and being a backup in district choir. 

IT WAS NO ONE ELSE WHO DID THIS BUT GOD.

I am a mere vessel in which the Lord did these things, but my God is the one who performed in all of those performances. 

And the more that I grew with music, the more I gave thanks to God. 

So I will say that the Lord used music to bring me closer to him.

Now, I want to use ALL of my talents for the Lord. Now, I want to use ALL of my skills for the Lord. 

And I don’t want to use any of it for the world because the Lord is the one who gave me this talent.

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I sure hope that I have been an inspiration and a hope to you all. Please remember to pray, read your bible, go to church, and love God above all else. Like, comment, share, subscribe, and I will see you all next time. 

If you want to go to heaven, then believe in Jesus and you will go to heaven. (John 3:16)

Thank you all for listening in on this blog post. 

German Gonzalez, signing out!