New Creation

Last night as I lay in my bed (not dying) praying my thoughts/prayers turned towards a saying by an Early Christian Monk about how God does not grant what he is not asked. I started praying to God asking him to give me strength, endurance, love, drive, patience, wisdom, and that I would be protected from the influence of the world. Soon after I feel asleep, but this afternoon before I climbed into the shower I popped a CD into the stereo in my bathroom. Lo and behold what comes on? Nothing less than Lost and Found's (www.speedwood.com) song "New Creation." This really encouraged me to cling desperately to the Cross and to Jesus, especially in this season of Lent. Lent is not a time to flaunt religious piety, it is a season of humility, fasting, prayer, love, and celebration. We look forward to the celebration of Easter morning and the resurrection of Christ. O how marvelous, o how wonderful is Christ's love for us - he that would give up his own life for all. That the divine would decend to earth with the single purpose of creating a new covenant of saving grace. Back to the prayer: I think this song embodies perfectly the cry I was making to God, this plea that I have to be made over, to be made new.

New Creation
Lost and Found

I want to be a new creation
Born from the fingers of God’s right hand, yeah
I want to be a new creation
God’s gonna make me, God’s gonna make me
God’s gonna make me stand

I want to see like Daniel
I want to love like John
I want to hope like Mary
I want to be the rock that’s built upon

I want to laugh like Sarah
I want to preach like Paul
I want to live like Lazarus
Play my trumpet, watch the crumbling wall

I want to be a new creation
Born from the fingers of God’s right hand, yeah
I want to be a new creation
God’s going to make me stand

I want to trust like Noah
See like the man born blind
I want to pray like Simeon prayed
I want to be the coin that the finder finds

But if I never move the mountains
And if I never part the sea
And if I never slay the giant
God do what you want with me

I want to be a new creation
Born from the fingers of God’s right hand, yeah
I want to be a new creation
God’s gonna make me, God’s going make me
God’s going to make me stand