Rewriting the tapes.

Our service and conduct do not earn salvation, but they are results of our salvation. I don’t do certain things or act a certain way so that God will love me. Rather, I am able to serve Him and grow in the Spirit because he loves me and died for me. That kind of thinking takes the focus off me and what I can do and puts it on God and what Christ has already done.

Instead of:

Hey God, did you just see that. Yep, I did that for you. Love me some more and prove it by giving me something. (Now, I would never say that out loud to God or anyone else, but I believe that is what I think sometimes.. oh, and then I don’t “get” something I feel that I have failed or that God doesn’t love me as much. YIKES!)

Rewrite that tape:

Wow God. Thank you for empowering me to do that.

Let me be honest here, sometimes I say the second one out loud or even pray it to God BUT my heart is still saying the first part. Yuck. It is definitely a battle but it is one worth fighting!

A Mirror is Harder to Hold.

You could stay a while longer
We could stay up and talk about last summer
We could go down to the water
Watch the sunset going under
It's not that I'm a stranger to lonely moments
I've had my share of those
Please don't go
Please don't leave me alone
A mirror is so much harder to hold

I could try and point the finger
But the glass points in my direction
Sure you've got your sharp edges
But my wounds are for my own reflection
You've got nothing I could ever hold against you
I've got fatal flaws to call my own
Please don't go
Please don't leave me alone
A mirror is so much harder to hold

I met a man who's looking for perfection
Said he'd never met a girl who's good enough
His eyes are getting old like they'd love to love again
Such a lonely man
Such a lonely man

I see him in my reflection
Taking steps towards me these days
So I hold you that much closer
And pray we don't throw this away
It's not that I'm a man who couldn't love you
I know what these arms are for
Please don't go
Please don't leave me alone
A mirror is so much harder to hold
A mirror is so much harder to hold
Please don't go
Please don't leave me cold
A mirror is so much harder to hold

-Jon Foreman