I Think I'd Hit Rewind
You know those songs that you've heard before, but sometimes the lyrics come to your mind at just the time you need it? Or else you hear it at time when it especially touches your heart? I have recently been thinking about a song that I heard my friends, the Brady Rochester family, sing at our last tent meeting. I believe the title is "A Reflection of Your Grace" (I don't know who wrote it or where it originated, but I heard it sung by the Rochester's). The song talks about wasted time, the wish to go back and serve the Lord more fully, some regret, and the desire for the Lord to use us from now on. The line that runs through my head the most is "If life were just a show, I think I'd hit rewind, but I can't refill the hour glass of time." Mostly that first phrase is what gets me "If life were just a show I think I'd hit rewind."
And to me, it is so true. I look back on my life and if I could, I may just push that rewind button. I wish I could re-do a lot of things/decision that I have made and done in my life. If I could sit and think about all the times I have failed the Lord, they would be innumerable. I absolutely wish I could go back and re-do things. If life really were just a show, I think I really would hit rewind.
But, you know, there isn't a rewind button in life... We can't go back and change past decisions. "I wish that I could roll the curtain back again, rewind the hands of further time, there’s so much more that I could do and that I would say, but all I really have is today." All I really have is today! I have two options: spend today wishing I could go back, or I can change how I am living today.
If I really want to change my life, the best thing I can do is give my all for God TODAY! No matter how much I wish I can't change things that are already behind me. There's another saying that goes "If you're tripping over the past, you are looking in the wrong direction. You aren't going that way anymore."
If I want a different future I have to start changing today, because today may be all I ever get. None of us are guaranteed tomorrow, the next hour, or even the next breath, so we should make the most of today. There are so many things I want to say so I will start with this:
1. Our relationship with Christ and our service for Him:
I recently heard a message based on Philippians 1:21King James Version (KJV) -"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Is this true of our lives? If someone were to follow me around for 30 days, would they find this true about me? If that thought doesn't sober you, I don't know what will.
If you aren't giving the Lord your all, start today! The lyrics to the whole song go:
" I wish that I could roll the curtain back again,
2. Our daily lives and our future goals:
I am a person full of dreams, ambitions and goals (though sometimes I feel like I don't have any, they are there) and sometimes my desire to do certain things makes me feel like I am going to explode. For example, I am a gypsy at heart, and by this I mean that I love to travel. Not only do I love to travel, but going places and taking adventures is one of my primary wishes in life. Staying in one place for too long makes me restless. I tease my parents and tell them I can't help they raised me a gypsy (we are church planters and I loved every bit of that!). So when I get stuck in the ordinary routine of work, school, etc. I honestly feel like I am about to go crazy. Eventually, I calm down and it's awhile before I get that again, but that's just who I am and I know the Lord has placed that in me for a reason.
I know there are others with goals, dreams and ambitions but some of us are too afraid to step out in faith and make those things happen. I want those who are reading this to think about your life as it is right now... Can you imagine living the same way for the next 50 years? What about it would you change?
If you don't begin making those changes TODAY you just might be stuck right where you are for the rest of your life. This of course isn't to make anyone unhappy in their daily lives, I understand we all have to have a job, and be responsible, but there are also goals people have and if you don't just step out of your comfort zone and do them, they won't happen.
I want to end by saying, please, don't let your whole life pass you by only to realize you have never done anything for the Lord.
Don't let is slip by only to realize you have lived a life where you never did anything you really wanted to do.
Life is too short, so let go of the past and change your future!
"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want."
And to me, it is so true. I look back on my life and if I could, I may just push that rewind button. I wish I could re-do a lot of things/decision that I have made and done in my life. If I could sit and think about all the times I have failed the Lord, they would be innumerable. I absolutely wish I could go back and re-do things. If life really were just a show, I think I really would hit rewind.
But, you know, there isn't a rewind button in life... We can't go back and change past decisions. "I wish that I could roll the curtain back again, rewind the hands of further time, there’s so much more that I could do and that I would say, but all I really have is today." All I really have is today! I have two options: spend today wishing I could go back, or I can change how I am living today.
If I really want to change my life, the best thing I can do is give my all for God TODAY! No matter how much I wish I can't change things that are already behind me. There's another saying that goes "If you're tripping over the past, you are looking in the wrong direction. You aren't going that way anymore."
If I want a different future I have to start changing today, because today may be all I ever get. None of us are guaranteed tomorrow, the next hour, or even the next breath, so we should make the most of today. There are so many things I want to say so I will start with this:
1. Our relationship with Christ and our service for Him:
I recently heard a message based on Philippians 1:21King James Version (KJV) -"For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Is this true of our lives? If someone were to follow me around for 30 days, would they find this true about me? If that thought doesn't sober you, I don't know what will.
If you aren't giving the Lord your all, start today! The lyrics to the whole song go:
" I wish that I could roll the curtain back again,
rewind the hands of
further time,
there’s so much more that I could do and that I would say
but all I really have is today,
Chorus
So here I am use me Lord give me words to see you save,
Let me love, let me live, let me give myself away!
Use my hands, use my feet, all I have is yours complete,
Let my life be a reflection of Your grace,
I can’t go back but I can live for you today.
Verse 2
There are so many things I wish I could redo,
And Lord I even failed you too,
If life was just a show I think I’d hit rewind,
But I can’t refill the hourglass of time"
Use me Lord!
2. Our daily lives and our future goals:
I am a person full of dreams, ambitions and goals (though sometimes I feel like I don't have any, they are there) and sometimes my desire to do certain things makes me feel like I am going to explode. For example, I am a gypsy at heart, and by this I mean that I love to travel. Not only do I love to travel, but going places and taking adventures is one of my primary wishes in life. Staying in one place for too long makes me restless. I tease my parents and tell them I can't help they raised me a gypsy (we are church planters and I loved every bit of that!). So when I get stuck in the ordinary routine of work, school, etc. I honestly feel like I am about to go crazy. Eventually, I calm down and it's awhile before I get that again, but that's just who I am and I know the Lord has placed that in me for a reason.
I know there are others with goals, dreams and ambitions but some of us are too afraid to step out in faith and make those things happen. I want those who are reading this to think about your life as it is right now... Can you imagine living the same way for the next 50 years? What about it would you change?
If you don't begin making those changes TODAY you just might be stuck right where you are for the rest of your life. This of course isn't to make anyone unhappy in their daily lives, I understand we all have to have a job, and be responsible, but there are also goals people have and if you don't just step out of your comfort zone and do them, they won't happen.
I want to end by saying, please, don't let your whole life pass you by only to realize you have never done anything for the Lord.
Don't let is slip by only to realize you have lived a life where you never did anything you really wanted to do.
Life is too short, so let go of the past and change your future!
"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to to spend a LOT of time dealing with a life you don't want."
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