Insecurities and Distractions

You know..lots of worship leaders (and musicians for that matter in general) have a certain area of their musical ability that they are really insecure about. With me it's rythym...for others maybe it's their voice or maybe certain types of chords, whatever...maybe it's even a spiritual issue. The worst thing about this particular area of insecurity (whatever it is) is that the enemy tries to get you right there when God's using you the most. I had a worship leader tell me that she had the most amazing and fun time of leading worship and right after she was done someone who wasn't even on the worship team made a beeline towards her and criticized this point on her playing...she was totally discouraged. I feel like there are two sides of the coin when it comes to leading worship. On the one hand you have the leader (that's us)...we have to work on our talents to increase, improve them...and try to be good enough on our instruments that we shine as best we can...doing as much as we can from our side not to distract people while they worship. However, there are some people sitting in worship who will be distracted no matter how great we do it. Be it their own musical frustration...or a spiritual issue they are dealing with or even just straight out spiritual attack. ..they too have a responsibility to fight the distraction instead of blaming it always on the one sitting up in front. For us musicians with great pitch and feels for rythym or harmony, we will always be distracted if we let ourselves be...through someone singing a weird harmony, missing a beat, too much high end on the guitar or whatever...if God provides the opportunity, sure, we can help others get better...but even more important is to learn to tune out the mistakes and even the music itself sometimes and to move on into worship...think about what I'm singing, even more...who I'm singing to. Boy, it is so hard, but God help us!!!