R.E.M.A.D.E

I’m glad God has a sense of humor and that he seems to be very patient with me. 🙂

He’s been working on this concept of changing me lately (over the last year). I’ve been feeling some dissatifaction in a couple areas of my life that have traditionally been peaceful places or places where I have traditionally placed some of my self worth. I think he’s trying to shift my priorities. I hinted at this in my most recent post .

One Friday night for our bi-monthly praise service, God was giving me words. I thought it was kind of odd because he normally gives me pictures/visions, nothing concrete. But it was definately words, single ones . . . He actually gave me the first word before the service started and then again at the beginning of the service, like “write it down already”. The first couple of words were “rest” and “enough”. I was thinking maybe he was just pointing out some stuff, like I need to slow down and rest in Him. But as he continued to give me words, I realized that maybe he was trying to give me another word (an acronym), one letter at a time. At which point, I was pretty grumpy. Being patient is one of the areas we need to work on. But I stuck it out, trying to figure out what the final word would be before we were done, but of course I didn’t guess. So . . . after a whole service of listening and focusing, I get the full word. By the way, this is pretty amazing in itself because I usually do not stay for the full service. But the kids were happy and we didn’t have any extras, so it was a good time for God to take things more slowly with me.

Rest
Enough
Mighty
Alone (Sole)
Desire
Evident

R.E.M.A.D.E.
Remade!

Here’s the ironic part. . . I wrote this post about labels back in March and after God gave me this word I was thinking “I know a song with the words ‘I am remade’ in it.” But I couldn’t remember the song. So I googled it and realized I had posted a portion of this song already! Hehe. Obviously I was supposed to get more out of this song than what I did at the beginning of the year.

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

Refrain:
I am not who I was
I am being remade
I am new
I am chosen and holy
And I’m dearly loved
I am new

Who I thought I was
And who I thought I had to be
I had to give them both up
Cause neither were willing
To ever believe

REFRAIN

Too long I have 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

REFRAIN (x2)

Forgiven beloved
Hidden in Christ
Made in the image of the Giver of Life
Righteous and holy
Reborn and remade
Accepted and worthy this is our new name

This is who we are now…