This week I am sharing some of my testimony as part of the Sounds of Freedom series.If you would like to be involved in sharing some of how one of your favourite worship songs has impacted your faith then please get in touch.
Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat remembering some stupid thing I said, about five years ago, to someone I don’t even know anymore,
It’s like I’m right there again, and the guilt washes over me anew.
I’ve got regrets of friendships I didn’t put more effort into and exams I didn’t try hard enough at.
I’ve got some bigger regrets as well. Like, when I was a teenager I was determined to work as a missionary in New York. I thought about applying to work with a ministry over and over, but in the end Idid’t because I was just too scared.
It’s easy for me to think that if I had tried harder, if I had been braver, then my life would be in completely different. Sometimes I feel like I have missed my chance. Because I didn’t listen to God’s voice that one time, he won’t ever want to use me again.
That’s not true.
God’s grace is so much bigger than that. It’s bigger than our circumstances, bigger than our past mistakes. His Grace is huge, and it covers everything.
Matthew West’s song sums it up perfectly: “Grace wins every time.”
The mistakes we made in our past may impact our future, but they don’t define them. Jonah was swallowed by a whale, not devoured by one. And God still wants to use us. No matter how much we messed up in the past.
He wants to use you if you’ve made the biggest mistakes imaginable . He wants to use you if everyone thinks you’re the perfect little Christian girl, but deep down you know that you’re not. God’s grace covers it all.
Throughout the bible we see God use imperfect, messed up people, time and time again. Moses was a murderer and yet God used him to lead his people out of the promised land. David was an adulterer,and still he was called a man after God’s own heart.
God’s grace covered their sins and it can cover yours as well.
This weeks Sounds of Freedom was written by Alice, she loves works as a teaching assistant and love Christ, chocolate and crochet.
Me Set Free 
I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks about things I have said to others in the past and cringes!! I was just reading Isaiah 43:18 this morning and it goes along perfectly with your words today, “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.” I love this promise!! Thank you for sharing this today!!
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Haha! I’m pleased I’m not the only one as well! What a great verse x
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This a very sweet post. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks!
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Love the post and the song. Like you, I sometimes wake up plagued by regret. God and His grace meet me there. And you’re right – Grace wins every time!
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It’s an awful feeling isn’t it, but it’s great when we remember his grave wins!
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When I was younger, I would do that same “cold sweat” feeling. I’d worry about something I said or did a few hours before or weeks or years before. I was worried that I’d be found out or it would come back to haunt me (not like major stuff like law breaking, but something I said about someone else, etc). I was just so hard on myself. But God and His amazing grace! And this song….so good.
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So true. And there is never any condemnation. Knowing that we He wants us always to know His grace so He can do His work through us. May you keep walking the grace path!
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