When the Music Finds You

In 1970, a young artist named Keith Green was a teenage prodigy chasing fame in Hollywood. He had signed his first recording contract at age eleven. By fifteen, he was writing songs for major labels, performing in clubs, experimenting with drugs, and drifting through Eastern mysticism searching for meaning. He had every musical gift imaginable — and none of it filled the emptiness inside him.

Then Keith encountered the gospel. Not in a cathedral or a revival tent, but through the patient, persistent love of Christians who simply refused to give up on him. When he surrendered his life to Christ, something remarkable happened to his music. The same talent that had chased Billboard charts began pouring out worship. Songs like "Your Love Broke Through" captured the raw wonder of a man who had tried to earn meaning through his own brilliance and discovered that God had been pursuing him the whole time.

Keith once said that before he knew the Lord, he played music to be loved. Afterward, he played music because he was loved. That single shift changed everything.

Grace works like that. We spend years performing, striving, trying to hit the right notes to earn approval from God and everyone else. Then the Almighty breaks through and we realize He was never waiting for our audition. He was already singing over us.

You do not have to perform your way into the love of God. His grace found you before you ever went looking for it.