{"id":27669,"date":"2015-09-14T00:15:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T04:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/?p=27669"},"modified":"2015-09-13T23:04:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T03:04:42","slug":"remind-me-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/14\/remind-me-who-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Remind Me Who I Am"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16629\" src=\"http:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When I lose my way<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And I forget my name<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Remind me who I am<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the mirror all I see<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Is who I don&#8217;t wanna be<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Remind me who I am<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">In the loneliest places<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">When I can&#8217;t remember what grace is<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Tell me, once again who I am to You, who I am to You<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Tell me, lest I forget Who I am to You, that I belong to You, to Yo<\/em>u<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">When my heart is like a stone<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">And I&#8217;m running far from home<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Remind me who I am<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">When I can&#8217;t receive Your love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Afraid I&#8217;ll never be enough<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Remind me who I am<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">If I&#8217;m Your beloved<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Can You help me believe it<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m the one You love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m the one You love<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">That will be enough<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800080;\">I&#8217;m the one You love<\/span><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QSIVjjY8Ou8?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Singer \/ Songwriter: Jason Gray<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">*\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0~ \u00a0 \u2665 \u00a0 ~<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u271e\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u00a0~ \u00a0\u2665 \u00a0 ~ \u00a0 *<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can&#8217;t keep it,<br \/>\nand if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions,<br \/>\nI obviously need help!<br \/>\nI realize that I don&#8217;t have what it takes.<br \/>\nI can will it, but I can&#8217;t do it.<br \/>\nI decide to do good, but I don&#8217;t really do it;<br \/>\nI decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway.<br \/>\nMy decisions, such as they are, don&#8217;t result in actions.<br \/>\nSomething has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.<br \/>\nIt happens so regularly that it&#8217;s predictable.<br \/>\nThe moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up.<br \/>\nI truly delight in God&#8217;s commands,<br \/>\nbut it&#8217;s pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight.<br \/>\nParts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve tried everything and nothing helps. I&#8217;m at the end of my rope.<br \/>\nIs there no one who can do anything for me? Isn&#8217;t that the real question?<br \/>\nThe answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does.<br \/>\nHe acted to set things right in this life of contradictions<br \/>\nwhere I want to serve God with all my heart and mind,<br \/>\nbut am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.<br \/>\nRomans 7:17-25 MSG<\/p>\n<p>I must admit I am feeling pretty worn and weary. \u00a0I am beginning to wonder if I will ever be able to make the changes I desire in my life. I have lost my \u2018<em>want to<span style=\"color: #800080;\">.<\/span><\/em>..\u2019. \u00a0Lysa TerKeurst puts it this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s not the <strong><em>how to<\/em><\/strong> I am missing. It\u2019s the<strong><em> want to<\/em><\/strong>\u2026really wanting to make changes and deciding the results of those changes are worth the sacrifice.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I was deciding which song to blog about, I was torn between this song and \u201c<em>Thrive<\/em>\u201d by Casting Crowns. God whispered to my heart \u201cYou must know <strong><em>who<\/em> you are<\/strong> before you can thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do we so easily forget <strong><em>who<\/em> we are<\/strong> and <strong><em>Whose<\/em> we are<\/strong>?<\/li>\n<li>Why is it that \u201c&#8230;in the mirror all I see is who I don&#8217;t wanna be&#8230;\u201d?<\/li>\n<li>Why do I struggle to do what I know is right and not do what I know is wrong?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I read an\u00a0article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newreleasetuesday.com\/article.php?article_id=717\" target=\"_blank\">story behind this song<\/a>.\u00a0 In it Jason Gray says this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMost, if not all, of the time I really don\u2019t want to sin, so that I do so seemingly against my own will. \u00a0Or as the apostle Paul famously said, \u201cI decide to do good, but I don\u2019t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway\u2026\u201d<br \/>\nSo sin begins to look more like addiction than anything else, as though there is a ravenous hunger deep inside of me that demands to be fed. What is that hunger, I wonder? Genesis Chapter 3 tells us that one of the first consequences of sin entering the world is that the ground would be cursed, that we would eat by the sweat of our brow and the soil would produce weeds and thistles. This carries in it the idea of futility: that our efforts are frustrated, that no matter what we do, we feel it\u2019s never enough&#8211;that perhaps we are never enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, how I can relate. \u00a0I have been ready to throw in the towel. \u00a0I am \u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>afraid I\u2019ll never be enough<\/em><\/span>.\u201d \u00a0Why? \u00a0Because I have been trying to do it <strong>on my own<\/strong>. No matter how much effort I put into it, I am doomed to fail <strong>on my own<\/strong>. Only when I realize who God says I am and rely on Him to lead me will I have success.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Who <\/strong>does God say I am?<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Colossians 3:12 AMP says I am &#8220;well-beloved [by God Himself,&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">1 John 3:12 NASB tells us &#8220;now we are children of God,&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Zephaniah 3:17 NIV states &#8220;The Lord your God is with you&#8230;He will take great delight in you; \u00a0He will rejoice over you with singing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Isaiah 49:16a AMP reminds us &#8220;Behold, I have indelibly imprinted (tattooed a picture of) you on the palm of each of My hands;&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Think about Isaiah 49:16 for a minute. \u00a0 Can you imagine the pain of having something inscribed (or tattooed) on the palm of your hand? \u00a0How much more painful was it for God to sacrifice His only Son for me? \u00a0I need to remind myself that God gave up everything for me so I don\u2019t have to do life <strong>on my own<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">All I need to do is ask God&#8230;<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">If I\u2019m Your beloved, can You help me believe it<\/span>?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I lose my way And I forget my name Remind me who I am In the mirror all I see Is who I don&#8217;t wanna be Remind me who I am In the loneliest places When I can&#8217;t remember what grace is Tell me, once again who I am to You, who I am [&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":[8512,3158,5889,1287,425,7481,2831,8513,8511,4932,8514,1912],"class_list":["post-27669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psalms-hymns-and-spiritual-songs","tag-1-john-312","tag-colossians-312","tag-cynda-cottrill","tag-gch","tag-girlfriends-coffee-hour","tag-isaiah-4916","tag-jason-gray","tag-lysa-terkuerst","tag-not-on-my-own","tag-psalms-hymns-spiritual-songs","tag-romans-717-25","tag-zephaniah-317","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/psalmshymnsspiritualsongskjv.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39pHp-7ch","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669","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=27669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27673,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27669\/revisions\/27673"}],"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=27669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/girlfriendscoffeehour.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}