I’m sorry for that soundtrack that somehow got stuck on repeat in your head because it’s been playing on loop in mine too.

You know.

You are your mental playlists.

That playlist that gets tracking through the neural matter of your mind, that someone cranked too loud with that refrain you’d never allow to reverberate in the head of anyone else, that sings these circles ‘round your soul:

Why am I the odd guy out in a world of insiders, why do I have all these wrinkles throughout my life, where everyone else has all these filters, why is my life a veritable circus when everyone else’s life is more like the red velvet balcony booth at the symphony?

And all our digital screens keep scrolling, like a player piano with its roll of programmed notes — and that song of deficiency keeps cranking till its screaming on repeat in far too many weary heads.

Your social streams can beat you down with a refrain of inferiority — that becomes the beat of the song that pounds around in your heart, beating up parts of you and shattering your sense of security.
Social streams shape your only soul.

Decades ago, researchers found that if you left a woman alone in a room with a stack of magazines and let her leaf through them, her body image and self-esteem tanked,” notes Melissa Hung, PhD, associate director of clinical training at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychology.

The difference is that those magazines weren’t in people’s hands 24/7,” she says. “They weren’t the last thing they looked at before they went to sleep, the very first thing they looked at in the morning, the thing they checked at lunch.”

But now we’re constantly carrying these flickering magazines around in our hands and how do you keep showing up when everywhere you turn, you can hear this drumming that you can’t keep up with all the people looking happier, hustling faster, cooking better, laughing louder at bigger tables with more seats?

Your social streams can beat you down with a refrain of inferiority — that becomes the beat of the song that pounds around in your heart, beating up parts of you and shattering your sense of security.

You are your mental playlists.

Social streams shape your only soul.

And in a loud world, we need a louder, surer song, the song that sings far beyond the walls of this small world and straight across the expanse of this whole reverberating universe.

What you get to to do is turn down the song of inferiority in your head and turn up the song of identity, of who you really are, that’s sung over you, that’s sung because you.

What you get to do do is turn down the song of inferiority in your head and turn up the song of identity, of who you really are, that’s sung over you, that’s sung because you.

This song is as real as the oxygen filling your lungs right in this moment.

The Lord your God … is always with you.
He celebrates and sings because of you…
Zeph. 3:17 CEV

The Triune God sings the most divine love song because of you, because His heart cannot silently contain His love for you. The God of the heavens is not far off, but here, right here, and the wonder of your presence moves the Maker of the universe to burst into song! Let the reality of that soundtrack literally resonate off the walls of your soul!

Can you imagine it? Is it possible to conceive of the Deity breaking into a song: Father, Son and Holy Ghost together singing over the redeemed?marvels the esteemed Charles Spurgeon.

The God who’s very voice spoke light out of the dark, He actually delights in you and He absolutely refuses to let anyone stay in the dark about His insuppressible love for you.

This is not cliche poetry. This is cosmic reality.

“Einstein…. tells us that the real universe is not silent, but is actually alive with vibrating energy,” writes the American Scientist. “Space and time carry… vibrations with textures and timbres as rich and varied as the din of sounds in a tropical rain forest or the finale of a Wagner opera. It’s just that we haven’t heard those sounds yet. The universe is a musical that we’ve been watching all this time as a silent movie.”

Now is the time to hear His love song across space.

Pause the beats of all the social streams and listen, listen:

The voice of God serenades your soul and the stars. You are the catalyst of the love canticles of Christ.

Attune the soul to the opera of His passion. Listen:

The God who took nothing and spoke everything into being, He takes wild joy in you and the Almighty breaks into an ardent aria because of you.

These aren’t mere words, but in Christ, this is your true life story.

God is so happy in the love which He bears to His people that He breaks the eternal silence, and sun and moon and stars, with astonishment, hear God chanting a hymn of joy…” writes the venerable theologian, Charles Spurgeon.

Can you hush all your soul and hear it even now, how the Maker of heaven and earth makes music not just over you, but because of you, that the Word is moved to writes love songs because you — you — move Him, that a heavenly symphony plays the strings of God’s heart, and one singular, divine baritone breaks into the megaphone of the endless love beating within the holy heart of Love Himself for you, for you, for you.

The voice of God serenades your soul and the stars.

You are the catalyst of the love canticles of Christ.

It’s not too late to change the beat in your head, in your heart; it’s never too late to change the beat in the hearts of the people you love.

The moment you feel weary of how life’s waves keep beating you down — is precisely the moment you need to hear the beat of God’s love song over you, because of you.

The more you can hear who you are in Christ, the less you hear the world telling you who you aren’t. Only the Word gets the last word about who you really are. And Jesus doesn’t attempt to improve who you are — Jesus actually imparts to you a wholly new heart 

The more you can hear who you are in Christ, the less you hear the world telling you who you aren’t.  

The more you turn to gaze on His face, the more you fully see who you truly are.

Only the Word gets the last word about who you really are. And Jesus doesn’t attempt to improve who you are — Jesus actually imparts to you a wholly new heart.

You’re no longer marked by shame, because the marks in His hands underline your name.
You’re no longer bound by failure and fear, because you’re found in Him, held secure, no lies can slither near.
You’re no longer held to a crushing standard of perfection, but held close in His arms of safest grace.

At the heart of Christianity, is that you get a new heart, and a new identity.

What God says about your identity, is who you are in reality.

And your identity isn’t based on what you think of yourself, or what what anyone else thinks of you — your identity is based on the belovedness that God actually sings over you.

You need your own brave song.

Because we all need a Brave Song:

The simplest of truths, told through the sweetest of songs, can change the world.

Which is exactly the refrain of our very first children’s book Your Brave Song!

We all need a hope song,
a courage song,
a song that assures that our our bravery doesn’t come from inside of us,
it comes from knowing you’re loved by the One who created love and is Love Himself.

Your Brave Song includes:

❤ A page to attach your child’s picture that makes this a uniquely personalized kids’ book

❤ Exquisite hand painted, acrylic artwork by illustrator Amy Grimes

❤ Inspirational prose about finding your security and identity in Christ

❤ A rhyming song that kids can memorize easily so that they can return to its truth every day

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When you pre-order, (Your Brave Song will arrive just after Feb. 7th, perfect for Valentine’s Day!) and you’ll get, all as free bonus gifts!

❤  Printable Lunchbox Cards with words of affirmation (also make great Valentines cards for friends!)

❤❤  Identity in Christ Pocket Cards: Print these & tuck in your pocket or purse or backpack, & you get a new playlist in your head and heart, of who you really are in Christ!

❤  Identity in Christ Art Prints: to rest that In Christ you are: Soul-Safe, Brave, and Fearfully and Wonderfully Made. Seen, Heard, Free, Known, and Redeemed. Accepted and Protected,  Strengthened and Strong, and you Belong. You are held in the arms of God who sings a love song over you, for you, because of you. And today you are a love song back to Him.

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