{"id":22862,"date":"2014-11-17T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T05:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=22862"},"modified":"2014-11-16T23:49:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T04:49:45","slug":"shouldve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/17\/shouldve\/","title":{"rendered":"Should&#8217;ve Been Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"341\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 341px) 100vw, 341px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ve read the story<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;ve seen the movie<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I give to charity<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And tithe my ten percent<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">These I remember<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">But I so easily forget<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">All these years never heard it like this<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It should&#8217;ve been me<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It should&#8217;ve been us<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Should&#8217;ve been there hanging on a cross<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">All of this shame<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">All of these scars<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Should&#8217;ve been stains that were never washed<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Why do I hide<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Why do You try<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Over and over and over again<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I guess it just leaves me saying thank God<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">It leaves me saying thank God, thank God<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">For the should&#8217;ve been<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I live a good life<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I love a great wife<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Our kids are beautiful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">We got friends down the street<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">If I&#8217;m so thankful<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Why do I easily forget<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">That You died for all of this<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">For this heart You changed<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">This soul You raised<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">My God for taking my place<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-xlNwDpPoWs?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Written by Ben Calhoun \u00a0~ Performed by\u00a0 Citizens Way<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> * \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>If I&#8217;m so thankful, why do I easily forget?<\/strong><\/em>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That question goes straight through my heart. \u00a0Oh, around Easter\u2014I don\u2019t forget. But the rest of the year\u2026it can be hit or miss. \u00a0How could I ever forget it should have been me? \u00a0That my sins nailed Christ to the cross? \u00a0How could I possibly take that for granted?<\/p>\n<p>This song is my reminder. It reminds me &#8212;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He was handed over to die because of our &lt;MY&gt; sins, and He was raised to life to make us &lt;ME&gt; right with God. \u00a0Romans 4:25 NLT<\/li>\n<li>God proves His own love for us &lt;ME&gt; in that while we &lt;I&gt; were still sinners, Christ died for us &lt;ME&gt;! \u00a0Romans 5:8 HCSB<\/li>\n<li>For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our &lt;MY&gt; sin, so that we &lt;I&gt; could be made right with God through Christ. \u00a02 Corinthians 5:21 NLT<\/li>\n<li>And He Himself bore our &lt;MY&gt; sins in His body on the cross, so that we &lt;I&gt; might die to sin and live to righteousness; for by His wounds you &lt;I&gt; were healed. \u00a01 Peter 2:24 NASB<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take a minute and read back through those Scriptures substituting <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>your<\/strong><\/span><\/em> name for the &lt;pronouns&gt;. \u00a0 Makes it much more real and personal when you do that, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<p>As I was typing this, I kept thinking about the first two verses of the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidjeremiah.org\/site\/about\/becoming_a_christian.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Roman Road<\/a>\u201d I learned growing up&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God<br \/>\nRomans 3:23 HCSB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.<br \/>\nRomans 6:23 HCSB<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It really <em><strong>should<\/strong><\/em> have been me. \u00a0It<strong><em>\u00a0REALLY should have been<\/em><\/strong> me! \u00a0The shame, the scars, the stains should have been mine. \u00a0How could I forget to thank God for the \u2018should have been\u2019? \u00a0Instead of being forgetful, let me make this my refrain:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cFor this heart You changed<br \/>\nThis soul You raised<br \/>\nMy God for taking my place<br \/>\nIt leaves me saying thank God<br \/>\nFor the should&#8217;ve been\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> * \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u271e \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 * <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lord, thank You for Your never-ending mercy and grace. \u00a0Thank You for trying over and over again, especially when I become forgetful. \u00a0Most of all thank You for taking my place. \u00a0It should have been me. In Your precious name I pray \u2013 Amen, it is so!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read the story I&#8217;ve seen the movie I give to charity And tithe my ten percent These I remember But I so easily forget All these years never heard it like this It should&#8217;ve been me It should&#8217;ve been us Should&#8217;ve been there hanging on a cross All of this shame All of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":16629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4937],"tags":[7789,6976,5889,1287,425,7793,4932,7791,912,3829,7790,7792],"class_list":["post-22862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-ben-calhoun","tag-citizens-way","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-jesus-died-for-our-sins","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-roman-road","tag-romans-323","tag-romans-623","tag-shouldve-been-me","tag-why-do-i-so-easily-forget","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s39pHp-shouldve","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22862"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22864,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22862\/revisions\/22864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}