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You know that place where you can't get your violin E string back in tune and the temperature keeps dropping? I'm so there.

My patience has really started to run thin and I'm wondering if I'm going to have to panic to my violin teacher at my next lesson. I say all this to say that I thought about something as I sat struggling with the E string. Time after time that string refused to wind back up and I was getting super frustrated when this thought came to me.

What is it like for the Lord when he tries to "wind us back up" but we refuse to go? We want to go our own way and we reason that under the circumstances we're better off doing what we want than what God wants. God has more patience than I do, I put down my tuner and put my violin back in the case and declared that I would "try again later" but God doesn't do things like that, he doesn't quit. We may refuse to be "put back in place" but God doesn't quit on us, he is faithful. God waits and if we allow him to he will put us back in tune again.

I think I'm going to go sit down with my violin again, this time I am determined that it will go back in tune.

P.S. That first sentence, it's a spin off from some commercial I saw on TV.