The Little Drummer Boy

What I like about “The Little Drummer Boy” is that this kid has nothing but this drum he can play, like, all he has is his creativity and probably this handmade skin-over-wood drum, right? 

And you gotta understand, he’s going to visit this group of people and a person who are bigger than anything that has ever existed in his world. This boy is walking to see the savior of the world…even if you don’t believe in Jesus…it’s probably like seeing the biggest celebrity you love or scientist who changed the world or thinker who changed a country.

Someone really big who you have one chance to impress. And everyone else is bringing their best and most expensive things as tribute. Imagine going to a royal wedding - what gift would you wrapped up to prove you are worthy?

See, all this kid has is music and a God-given talent.

And that’s the gift. Grace. Grace, the verb, means to honor someone - grace and honor are intangible. It's not gold or like a really cool pair of shoes.

The grace in this song is that everything given to you by birth and life and by God is meant to be shared and given to others. When the Little Drummer Boy played his drum, it was the grace inside him that he gave.

That ability to give grace, falls on all of us because we are put on earth with this radiance inside of us.

You are put on this earth with the radiance inside you. A radiance that is more than worthy to set before something or someone as big as God.

So, what are you doing with your radiance?