You Set Me Free

I love songs, especially love songs to the Lord. I love reading the words, singing the notes and simply reveling in the message found in these songs. One such song is Sandi Patty’s You Set Me Free with the following lyrics:

There've been times in my life you've opened doors 
They weren't what I was hoping for 
So I walked right by them, I didn't even try them 
There've been dreams I forgot and dreams I let die 
Unnoticed sunsets in front of my eyes 
I just couldn't see them

I thought I didn't need them 
Sure there are things I'd do different and yet 
Grace gives me days where I simply forget 

Chorus

 
Cause you set me free to run through fields of laughter 
and to sing as though I have no yesterdays 
You set me free from my befores and afters 
From a debt I know I'll never pay 
When you set me free 

There've been chances to love that I've ignored 
Mercies I found I couldn't afford 
I'm sure I would've shown them If I would have know then 
How we all play a part in each other's lives 
and there's more to the game than winning the prize 
So much I want to try now I feel like I could fly now 
Sure there are things I'd do different and yet 
Grace gives me days where I simply forget 

Repeat chorus 

Father, you father me ever so patiently 
you give me wings to fly 
when you set me free 
To fly, to soar to places I've not been before 
the boundaries of humanity cannot contain what you set free 

Repeat chorus 

Father, you father me ever so patiently

You give me wings to fly you give me wings to fly

A lot of the songs we sing in church are prayer songs like this one. It so conveys what is in my heart for the Lord. He set me FREE! Free from sin, guilt, jealousies, evil surmising, anxieties and their kin. You see, just two years ago, He has set me free from a life of sin, of hypocrisy. He allowed me to see His grace, His love for me and for everybody. O what a gracious God He is! He allowed to live my life now as if I had no yesterdays! =) Oh, the beauty of His forgiveness! “He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.” (Psalm 40:2, 3, NKJV). I have the same desire that you will experience this, too! If you haven’t experienced it already.