lifesong
Everyone needs compassion
Love that's never failing
Let mercy fall on me
Everyone needs forgiveness
The kindness of a Saviour
The hope of nations
Saviour, He can move the mountains
My God is mighty to save
He is mighty to save
Forever author of salvation
He rose and conquered the grave
Jesus conquered the grave
So take me as you find me
All my fears and failures
Fill my life again
I give my life to follow
Everything I believe in
Now I surrender
Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing, for the glory
Of the risen King
Jesus, Shine your light in
Let the whole world see
We're singing for the glory
Of the risen king
Monday, February 19, 2007
-8:42 pm
Memories.
Some make you laugh, some make you cringe (or cry)
Others- well, they aren't worth remembering.
But often the most poignant are the ones that bring you pain; the ones you want to forget
but can't.
Yet, perhaps what we need to "forget" is not really the event, or whatever happened. We often quote Isaiah 43:18- "Forget the former things..." If you're talking about unwanted memories, what the verse means is maybe (from my amateur interpretation so don't take my word for it) releasing to God the hurt and emotional baggage it caused. Surrender- yes, that's the word- is when you find closure.
Life will present us with an accumulation of things pleasant and not. Perhaps the key is not to press "delete" every time something doesn't agree with us, but to instead allow God to help us see it from a different perspective, to view it through new lenses. Every experience, trial or blessing, is a lesson in itself. I believe in how God moulds us through the former. Nothing we can do will change the past. But our future has everything to do with how much we let God change us.
Just like putting on new clothes for the new year, changing our attitudes and outlook make us look and feel brand new, inside out.
Happy Lunar New Year. (:
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