Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
The Piccolo Principle
Do you ever feel like your life lacks significance? Like you're just a small note in a grand symphony that no one would notice if it went missing? Today's episode challenges that notion with a powerful story about a piccolo player in Michael Costa's London Philharmonic Orchestra who thought his contribution didn't matter—until the moment he stopped playing and the renowned conductor immediately halted everything, asking "Where's the piccolo?"
This compelling story perfectly illustrates the biblical truth found in 1 Corinthians 12, where Paul explains how every part of the body has essential significance, regardless of its size or visibility. Just as a body needs each unique part to function properly, God's plan requires each one of us playing our distinct roles. Your life matters enormously, even when you can't see its impact. God has strategically positioned you to influence others in ways only you can. Whether you're feeling overlooked or questioning your purpose, remember: the Conductor notices when your unique note is missing from the symphony. Join me every weekday morning to start your day with encouragement and perspective that helps you recognize your true significance in God's orchestra.
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right. I am Danny Mac and I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great start to your day. So grab your cup of coffee, sit back and relax for the next five minutes as I help you start your day by starting right. It's very easy for us to sometimes feel that we are living a life of insignificance, particularly when there's so many things that are going on around us that seem to be overwhelming the world and creating so many distractions on around us that seem to be overwhelming the world and creating so many distractions. But let me ask you this Do you know the name Mordecai Ham? How about Sam Woldemuth? Do either of those names ring a bell to you? Probably not. Those are two people we probably haven't heard about, but they have some significance that I'll tell you in just a minute or two. But first of all, let me tell you this story. Back in the late 1800s, there was a man by the name of Michael Costa who was the conductor for the London Philharmonic Orchestra. A great conductor, a great man of music had a great ear for music. He was one of these guys, though, that ran the orchestra almost with a military precision. He had an iron fist over what was taking place and, quite frankly, that's not hard to understand. When you've got 50 people playing different kinds of instruments and you're trying to get them all on the same track, you probably have to be kind of tough to make sure that they get to the right place doing the right thing. There's an often repeated story about him leading a rehearsal that included the orchestra and also a large choir. About halfway through the session, the trumpets were blaring, the drums were rolling, the violins singing their melody and the chorus singing away, there was a piccolo player who said to himself what good am I doing? I might just as well not even be playing. Nobody's going to hear me anyway. So he kept the instrument to his mouth, sort of faking it. But he didn't make any sound and within moments Michael Costa cried out stop, stop, stop. Where's the piccolo? Where's the piccolo? Piccolo was missed by the ear of the absolute most important person of all.
Speaker 1:In 1 Corinthians 12, starting in verse 12, it says this Just as the human body is one, though it has many parts that together form one body, so too is Christ, for by one Spirit we all were immersed and mingled into one single body and no matter our status, whether we are Jews or non-Jews, oppressed or free, we are all privileged to drink deeply from the same Holy Spirit. In fact, the human body is not one singular part, but rather many parts mingled into one. So if the foot were to say, since I'm not a hand, I'm not part of the body, it is forgetting that it is still a vital part of the body. And if the ear were to say, since I'm not an eye, I'm not really a part of the body, it's forgetting that it is still an important part of the body. Think of it this way If the whole body were just an eyeball, how could it hear sounds? And if the whole body were just an eyeball, how could it hear sounds? And if the whole body were just an ear, how could it smell different fragrances? But God has carefully designed each member and placed it in the body to function as he desires. A diversity is required, for if the body consisted of one single part, there wouldn't be a body at all. So now we see there are many different parts and functions, but there's only one body.
Speaker 1:Paul tells us in that first letter to the Corinthians just how important all the parts are. There's no part that's insignificant, no part at all, because we don't know how that part is going to affect some of the other parts. We need the little parts to make the big parts work and to make them function properly. There are no insignificant people in God's plan, and you are significant to God this morning as well. Remember those two names Sam Woldsmuth, mordecai Ham.
Speaker 1:You may not recognize those names, but you're going to recognize a couple of others. Sam Woldsmuth he led Ravi Zacharias to the Lord. Mordecai Hamm he led Billy Graham to the Lord. Small parts that we think are insignificant can have huge impact. God has created each one of us to have an impact and you can make an impact on your world by letting God use you in wherever he leads you, because you are an important part of his body. Have a great day, my friends. We'll talk again tomorrow. Thank you for listening today and I invite you to join me Monday to Friday, right here on, starting Right with Danny Mac.
