A high school classmate of mine is pretty influential in Nashville songwriting circles. You’ll likely never have heard of him personally, but you’ve heard his work. Ronnie Bowman. He’s come a long way, grew up in a less than ideal circumstance. We’re proud of him.
That looks like it could be the pattern. “I must decrease, but He must increase.” I’ll be watching this and marveling while most folks will be like HTRN? who’s that? We got material that might give Charlie Daniels a neat, and very evangelistic sequel to his “Devil Came Down To Georgia.” But we wouldn’t be asking for the fame on earth. The fame we are aiming for is God’s in heaven.
But Nashville definitely has an infrastructure. The stars visible on the surface are just the surface.
And it’s the folks who have come from “down in the dirt” who really, truly appreciate what Christ can do. My past dirt might make a septic tank’s look good. If you’ve been looking good to the world and the world has been crowing about you, you might well miss His work.