So for Christmas I got an MP3 player (yay Aunt Casi!) and my wife got an iPod. A good friend of mine told me that we’d need at least 8 gig of memory to keep ourselves interested, but I realized that we’re the kind of people that really chew on an artist or a musical genre for awhile. So with that said us needed 6,000 songs give or take a hundred was un-needed. To fill up the sum of our 5 gig of music that both mp3 players have I had to go back to some of our old CDs. In that process I found a band that I listen to from time to time, but I haven’t just listened to their albums over and over in a long time. That band is Five Iron Frenzy. Sometimes I think I’m really passionate about the deep things of God, and then sometimes I think I’m way synical about the shallow things of church. I feel that sentiment from Reese Roper (lead singer and song writer for FIF) through much of their music. I thought it fitting this year that for new years this song was playing over the loud speaker at a retreat that I was at right before midnight on the 31st of Dec.
New Years Eve by Five Iron Frenzy
It’s New Years Eve and I’m full of empty promises,
I half pretend to keep this time, just like last year.
The band is loud and I’m wandering the shadows,
wishing I was never here.
I persevere.
A crowded room, these whitewashed tombs,
they raise their glasses high, they kiss the past goodbye.
This New Years Eve, I’m waiting for tomorrow.
My heart is on my sleeve,
and yes I still believe, this New Years Eve,
will turn out better than before,
I’m holding on, still holding out,
until they close the door… on me.
It’s New Years Eve and I feel my insecurities,
are haunting me like ghosts, this sinking quicksand.
And then with thunderous praise and lofty adoration,
a second passes by, yet nothing changes.
I hate my skin, this grave I’m standing in.
Another change of years, and I wish I wasn’t here.
A year goes by and I’m staring at my watch again,
and I dig deep this time,
for something greater than I’ve ever been,
life to ancient wineskins.
And I was blind but now I see.
This New Years Eve, something must change me inside,
I’m crooked and misguided, and tired of being tired.
This New Years Eve, I’m waiting for tomorrow.
My heart is on my sleeve, and yes I still believe, in You.
I love this song. Have you ever stuck with a new years resolution? Ever? I don’t think I have either. At this point I don’t even give them a thought. I think a few things about the whole concept: Why wait until a moment to change the things that you know you need to change? Isn’t now the best time to do that? James 4:17 says: “Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin. Second of all, I can’t remember ever really changing anything myself. I’ve got a friend that stopped smoking cold turkey, that was pretty cool. I still don’t remember anything that I really changed. The only changes I ever can put a finger on in my life…well that finger gets pointed back to God. Everything good that has ever happened in my life has come from my Father in heaven. 2 Corinthians 5:17 says, “Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold new things have come.”
If you’re reading this and have already failed miserably at holding your end of the new years resolution bargain down…rest easy. You never had a chance. Allow the God that is good to change your life. He made you anyway, he can change you.
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