services. And I’ m very grateful for that.
[ WM ] I must say, although not sequenced in this manner, two songs serve as great bookends conceptually to the project. And I’ m speaking of“ Come into the Light” and“ The Reminder”. I sometimes grieve that we, the church have forgotten who He is as expressed in“ Come into the Light” and what He’ s done as expressed in“ The Reminder”. All this because we’ ve become so easily distracted by our lives. What can you say about this?
[ Taya ] I can say yes! I think God knows that we are forgetful people. So many times in the Bible, actually over 8,000, there are reminders in the Bible. There are over 300 times that the actual word reminder is used, and then over 500 times if you put in certain variations of that word. So, I think God in his kindness knew that we would be forgetful people and that we would need the constant reminder like you said, of who he is and what he’ s done. I love it! In Revelation it says that they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony.
Come Into the Light
I love that its first what Jesus has done. And then our job is to tell other people,“ Look what He’ s done in my life. If He can do it for me, He can do it for you.”
Both of those songs came out of an honest conversation, and it was a conversation that held joy and grief at the same time because it was also a question of,“ Lord, if we had a true view of who You are, we wouldn’ t hide our sin. We would have a revelation. The fact that You see everything, You are light, in You, there is no darkness, and darkness isn’ t dark to You at all. You actually see everything that we do and everything that we go through. And yet You love us and yet you invite us into a better way, to a way to live freely and lightly.” Over the last two years, everything that we could have leaned on was stripped away. Every single thing was taken that we could lean on other than Him. Even people that you think would stick around didn’ t and how kind that it is not based
The Reminder
on that. It’ s not even based on my faithfulness, on my ability that I didn’ t worry, because I totally did. And there were moments where I was fearful. And yet I love that it’ s not based on any accolade or ability of our own, but God doesn’ t change. He remains faithful.
I love that you would highlight those two tracks, especially for me personally knowing the direction that this album was going to take, and also the direction that I was to step into and stop potentially fighting that the next record would be that live worship album. When I heard that mix of the“ Come into the Light” live version, that’ s when I had a moment in the car and I just had a little cry with the Lord because it felt like that was a homecoming. And it felt at peace and just a confirmation of this is what you’ re supposed to be doing and so let’ s just do it.
[ WM ] I want to say that reminding ourselves about what God has done is a choice. I know for myself, I must choose to believe in what the Lord has communicated to me during my walk with him over the years and my cancer journey, I’ ve asked myself, is it possible to believe too much about him? I don’ t think so. The Lord would never become displeased with me for believing too much about him. I need to constantly return to those piles of stones that he has given me over the years. The ancient Hebrews piled stones in places to remember what God had done for them. And likewise, my alters are also stone markers for my life and for remembering what he’ s done for me. If God really does love me and he really is in control of my life, what do I have to worry about? And so, I raise my Ebenezer as the hymn says. That one pile of stones was called Ebenezer, that
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