Music Therapy...Wednesday Edition "I Am New"

If I had to pick one song that I felt best describes me, this one would be it. I love EVERY SINGLE WORD of it. It reminds me of a billboard I saw the other day in front of a church: "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future!" Thanks be to God!

Think you've flubbed up beyond repair? If I could tell you one thing right now, it's that today is a new day. Forget about the person you once was, even if it was only yesterday. As long as there is still breath in us, we have another chance to get things right. God isn't finished with us yet, and he is working day by day (moment by moment, sometimes) making us into the image of what he wants us to be.

Whatever has happened to you or whatever you have done does NOT make you the person that you are. God is love. And peace. And forgiveness. Do yourself a favor and forgive yourself. God already has. "...he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." Psalm 103: 10-12



"I Am New" by Jason Gray

Now I won't deny the worst you could say about me,
But I'm not defined by mistakes that I've made because God says of me
I am not who I was
I'm being remade, I am new!
I'm chosen and holy And I'm dearly loved. I am new, I am new!

Who I thought I was and who I thought I had to be
I had to give them both up, cuz neither were willing to ever believe
I am not who I was
I'm being remade, I am new!
I'm chosen and holy And I'm dearly loved. I am new, I am new!

Too long have I lived in the shadows of shame
Believing that there was no way I could change
But the One who is making everything new
Doesn't see me the way that I do
He doesn't see me the way that I do

Forgiven
Beloved
Hidden in Christ
Made in the image of the Giver of life
Righteous
Holy
Reborn
Remade
Accepted
Worthy
This is our new name
This is who we are now