Are You Painting the Piano?
Friday, January 16th, 2009Bandleader Count Basie told a club owner, whose piano was out of tune, “I am not returning until you fix it.” A month later, Basie received a call from the club owner and he told him everything was fine. When Basie returned to the club and tried to play, the piano was still out of tune. “You said you fixed the piano!” an angry Basie exclaimed. “I did,” the owner replied. “I had it painted.” The owner solved the wrong problem!
Is your life, ministry, finances, marriage, family and spiritual life out of tune? Maybe you are “painting the piano” when you should be tuning it. Could it be you are not seeing the kind of success you desire in your life because you are not solving the right problems? For example, the answer to getting out of debt is not necessarily making more money. If you make more money, more than likely, you will spend more money, unless you solve the right problem. The issue that needs to be addressed is mismanagement of the money you already make. You need to become a faithful manager of the financial resources that God has entrusted to you.
Are you solving the right problems? Is there a more significant problem that you are overlooking? Tell me what you think.
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