This is an excerpt from an interview with Matt Greiner, the drummer from August Burns Red, when asked about his personal achievements. ...Such an amazing response... I grew up playing drums four hours a night and working fifty hours per week landscaping. Lots and lots of work has gone into playing drums. When someone compliments me the temptation is to think it was all me because I invested so much time, emotion, energy, and money into it. But the thing is, if you take credit for your ability to play drums then you have to assume the consequences of that “self-credit.” Your identity will be connected so closely to whatever it is that you are taking credit for that when that thing dies, so do you. You can’t hold anything that high except God, because He is the only thing that won’t let you down. And if you put God first, it contextualizes whatever you are good at in your life. If God is first, then everything else is a gift, and I will be able to see my work as a passion that God put on my heart probably before I was born. If I do it for myself, I am probably going to experience a fraction of the enjoyment. But if I do it knowing it is a gift God gave me to give to others for His glory, it’s going to be so much more rewarding. If there is one thing I have learned in ABR it is this: I have to be centered on God and nothing else or I will always be chasing something I can never get my hands on.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:18:10 +0000
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