WHO'S BACKING YOU?

 

At one time in my life I have served in the praise & worship team in church. Honestly speaking, I can tell you that its quite a big deal if you don’t have the ‘’nice vocals’’. In my early days of joining the team, due to my limitation in producing a nice music sound that could send congregants to their knees, 99% of my participation was in the backup. Projecting our voices for the purposes of supporting the lead singer, hence perform a nice worship/praise was our main task. I can’t tell how many times I got red in the eyes after being chocked by saliva for trying to project my voice beyond my capability. You can imagine the struggle of trying to hold in the cough and still hold the microphone as if nothing is wrong. There are times I could hear myself hitting a strong ‘’off key’’ at the top of my voice, the kind that makes people stop singing first so that they can reconnect again. I won’t lie, severally at this point, I could intentionally switch off the microphone and still hold it on my mouth and sing along, just to avoid the embarrassment. Most of us in the backup team had the same problem and this always made it harder for the lead singer to do a good job on stage.

In my few years of ‘adulting’ I have come to notice that the one who’s backing you matters most. The praise and worship team in our church was always regarded as a weak one due to those of us who couldn’t do a good backing. Despite the fact that the lead singers were excellent, the problem of the backups affected them.

People always tend to have an alternative ‘B’ just incase the first choice fails. This always seems to be the backup plan but rarely does it occur to us that also alternative B can fail. What if alternative B fails?

A young man/woman in university, is promised a job opportunity by the uncle who owns a senior position in a government office, but just after completion of studies, the uncle dies. So the young individual falls into depression for they never took their studies seriously nor sought any job networks just because of the ‘strong back up’ they thought they had.

A married man/woman neglects their family and engages in extra marital affairs in the hope that they can always run there to get the unmet needs in their marriage, in the end, love triangle scandals send them to an early grave.

A very fair woman, with a kind of beauty that not only lies in the eyes of the beholder, but the beauty that everyone can actually acknowledge that the maker took time to create her, in her prime age to get married ignores all the potential spouses and trades her beauty for money. In the end she loses all that money cannot buy and lives in regret all her life.

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 The thing that does cost us greatly is the choice of our backup. Some choices are made based on fame, financial status or political affiliations. If the greatest confidence an individual has is based on the money they have, social/educational status, physical appearance or their fame, then this is the least level of confidence. All these things can vanish in a twinkle of an eye…

If your backup is in someone greater, then your confidence is great. Do you have a shelter/dwelling place/habitation somewhere greater? A place of permanent residence and absolute dependence where you can fall back to and still find a sure back up, (psalm 91:9).