Burn

Looking to the mirror for a grade
Looking to others to see how I measure up
Thinking about old mistakes I've made
And why I don't feel like I'm quite enough

But You, see the me inside, and You've loved me through it all
I'm Your creation and Your child
And I am made to worship you, with everything that I do
I want to serve you with all that I am.

CHORUS
Burn, Burn....Burn away the lies with the passion in Your eyes
You see me as I am, and You look on me with love.
Light, Light...Light my heart on fire, and help me lift You higher
Let me know Your endless love.


Verses
All around us are pictures and promises false and failing
Empty lies that just won't satisfy
But in Your word there is the truth and I'll delight myself in You
In Your spirit I'm alive.

People will sometimes let us down that's how it is here on the ground
but by Your grace Lord Yours are changing
You know what You've made us to be, so help us with Your eyes to see
each other as new and true, though our lives You're still rearranging

CHORUS
Burn, Burn....Burn away the lies, with the passion in Your eyes
You see us as we are, and You look on us with love.
Light, Light...Light our hearts on fire, and help us to lift you higher
Let us know Your endless love.

BRIDGE
Earthly things will fade away, but what You've done Lord will remain.
Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!
You've made me new and I am clean in Jesus Christ who has died for me.
Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!

Earthly things will fade away, but what You've done Lord will remain.
Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!
You've made Yours new and we are clean in Jesus Christ who sets us free.
Hallelujah!  Hallelujah!

Verses
EmAmCGD
Chorus
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Bridge
CGD(Em on first rounds)

2 Cor 5:16-17
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

1 John 4:16
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

1 John 2:15a
Do not love the world or the things in the world.

Ps 63:3-5
Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you. 4 So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands. 5 My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips

Is 40: 6b-8 A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Eccl 3:14
I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life

I don't know about ya'll, but I have struggled with comparing myself to others and judging myself by the standards of the world in various areas of life.  I've thought..."if only ....." then I would be happy, but the truth is that I find joy in Christ, and in realizing that God loves me so much that he sent someone to die to be my propitiation (redemptive substitute- bought me back by taking my place for what I had done wrong) and that I am forgiven and get to have eternal life.  His word will stand forever. 

It is cool that God has made me a new person, just like all those who by the gift of faith in Jesus Christ are His children, and that He sees us and calls us to see each other as such, though we are still works in progress.  As New Year's Eve rolls around, may we all see ourselves as He does, and see each other likewise.  My prayer for myself is that the fire and passion of God's love will "burn" out any of the lies that keep me from doing that and seeing Him as He is.

If you don't know that you are a new creation, please ask God about that, look in His Bible, and ask people who read, believe and do what the Bible says to and are full of love.  Feel free to ask me as well (I hope and like to think I am in the last category).

: ) a Joyful New Year to all!