1.8 So long self...

The song MercyMe has called "So Long Self" seems to fit quite perfectly with where my life is heading right now. I am wanting to say goodbye to my old self in the sense that it is not my life that is truly important in this lifetime, but it is God's life that is important. It is also sort of a song for those who are choosing to accept Christ's gift into their life and are making the room necessary in their heart for God. I can really see that it is much more important for me to be lifting up God's name and fulfilling His desires rather than my own. This summer is going to be really awesome Lord and I am so excited to see how I can grow, as well as how Richard will grow as he learns to lean on You more and more each day and with each circumstance. These two verses in Isaiah seem to mesh really well with the song I was playing by MercyMe:

"Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
Cease to do evil,
Learn to do good;
Seek justice,
Rebuke the oppressor;
Defend the fatherless,
Plead for the widow.-Isaiah 1:16-17

I know that when the Lord asks me to come clean of my sins it is because I must repent in order to be close to Him again. God hates sin and so it is natural for us to become distant from Him when we are living in sin, but when we repent of those sins and want to be made clean then we can truly come back into fellowship with the Lord again.