Our output in life depends on our input

When I was a little kid my dad once bought me a beautiful wooden flute. It was my first time to ever see this nice bamboo flute. I had never seen one before so I didn’t quite know how to use it. I ran around the house with it for about five minutes before coming back to him and asking him what it’s purpose really was. He told me that it was a musical instrument and I immediately replied that it wasn’t playing any music. That’s when dad told me, “You’ve got to blow into the flute, son!”

Isn’t life very much like that flute? If you don’t put anything in it you won’t get anything out of it. Your output is directly related to your input. Many people stand around the corners of life with their hands in their pockets expecting a free hand-out. They keep demanding a lot from life but won’t even get their hands out of their pocket in expectation of the hand-out. If we are going to get anything out of life we’ve got to start putting something in. If you want to create some music in your life you’ve got to blow into the flute.