The next song for my Blog was written by Matthew West and first released in 2012. A link to Matthew West performing the song is at the bottom of this Blog entry.
Hello, My Name Is
Hello, my name is regret
I’m pretty sure we have met
Every single day of your life
I’m the whisper inside
Won’t let you forget
Hello, my name is defeat
I know you recognize me
Just when you think you can win
I’ll drag you right back down again
‘Til you’ve lost all belief
These are the voices,
these are the lies
And I have believed them,
for the very last time
Hello, my name is child of the one true king
I’ve been saved, I’ve been changed, and I have been set free
Amazing grace is the song I sing
Hello, my name is child of the one true king
I am no longer defined
By all the wreckage behind
The one who makes all things new
Has proven it’s true
Just take a look at my life
Hello, my name is child of the one true king
I’ve been saved, I’ve been changed, and I have been set free
Amazing grace is the song I sing
Hello, my name is child of the one true king
What a love the Father has lavished upon us
That we should be called his children
I am a child of the one true King
What a love the Father has lavished upon us
That we should be called his children
Hello, my name is child of the one true king
I’ve been saved, I’ve been changed, and I have been set free
Amazing grace is the song I sing
Hello, my name is child of the one true king
I am a child of the one true king
I will begin the first entry in this Blog by analyzing the first section of the song.
Hello, my name is regret
I’m pretty sure we have met
Every single day of your life
I’m the whisper inside
Won’t let you forget
Hello, my name is defeat
I know you recognize me
Just when you think you can win
I’ll drag you right back down again
‘Til you’ve lost all belief
These are the voices,
these are the lies
And I have believed them,
for the very last time
Hello, my name is child of the one true king
I’ve been saved, I’ve been changed, and I have been set free
Amazing grace is the song I sing
Hello, my name is child of the one true king
Do you have those days in your life when you feel as if the whole world has come crashing down on top of you? All you can think about is the negative things in your life and perhaps the failures that got you to this point. As we focus on these regrets, we are where Satan wants us to be, focused on anything else but our Lord and our eternal life. Satan is the voice of regret whispering in our ear and is constantly reminding us of everything we have done wrong in our lives. We are letting him hold us back from who God wants us to be.
As if the flood of regrets is not enough, Satan also likes to remind us of all of our failures. Our failures could be the job we didn’t get and desperately need, a broken relationship, the loss of someone special in our lives whom we never told often enough how much we loved them, or perhaps a promotion we deserved that was given to someone else. Satan continues to whisper in our ear and reminds us of how unworthy we are. We all have struggles we battle every single day as we just try to keep our heads above water and it is at this weakest moment that Satan reminds us of our failures and we fall back into the rut and into the inner darkness that seems to overwhelm us. We just want to hang our heads in absolute dejection or throw our arms up and just say “I can’t do this anymore!”
Satan and his minions are always around us and we constantly hear their whisperings during our weakest moments and many times we believe what we are hearing. We start to believe we can do nothing right, nobody loves us, and we are destined for a miserable life on this earth. At some point, as we strengthen our relationship with Christ, the many voices of Satan get quieter as they are drowned out by the love of Jesus and the voice of the Holy Spirit. We start to realize that we have been hearing lies our whole life and have had Satan stealing away our joy and hope, but no more!!
The song shifts from the voice of Satan to our own voice. Once we have accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior, we become his child for eternity, we become a child of the only true king. We become secure in knowing we have eternal life, all of our sins have been forgiven, and we have been set free of our past. Satan still is and will always be talking to us, but he has no power over the one true king, Jesus. Yes, our past is still there, but all of our wrongs have been forgiven and we now have the opportunity to start on a new path with our Savior. We can now look to the path Jesus has planned for us as opposed to the path we have been trodding. Through the death of Christ on the cross, all of our sins have been forgiven, his grace truly is amazing. We spend our lives ignoring him, tackling our struggles on our own, letting Satan be our guide, and essentially ignoring him and his love for us. In spite of it all, he was still willing to die for us and through grace all of our sins are erased and forgotten. It is no doubt Amazing Grace that fills our heart and soul. Yes, we do have a new name, it is no longer regret, defeat, or hopelessness; it is child of the one true king!!!