This Is Me/Who You Say I Am: Mashup

Who are you? Who am I? Where do I fit? Am I in the way?

Who. Am. I.

These words are echoed from the halls of every middle and high school in the World. And if we're honest, from most adults as well.

I loved Greatest Showman. I love the song "This is Me" - I am ME - me... the me who God has made me to be. But how much more powerful is this mashup - I am who YOU say I am... I am who God has created me, I am who God meant me to be.

For the last year I have been working to hear God's truth spoken over the lies I have believed about myself - lies that are well ingrained in me. Satan's words that have cut me deep - places where I need God to speak truth, repeatedly, over the hurts, to heal from completely. Places where sometimes I am prone to go back and "pick at" the scabs - to revisit the physical or emotional pain.

One of those truths is proclaimed in this song... I leave you with this thought:

You are chosen.

The you that you show the World. The you that you wish you weren't. The you that is hurting. The you that is rejoicing. The you who you don't want anyone to see. The you who was the last pick on the kickball team in PE every single time. The you that hides in the dark, praying that no one will find you, but secretly hoping that someone will see you, really see you, and chose you.

You. YOU... you... you are chosen. Personally, by an amazing God who created you to be you, and loves you for you, and sees the real you. That you. You are chosen. On purpose.

Look out 'cause here I come (I am who You say I am)
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum (I am who You say I am)
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me


Who am I that the highest King
Would welcome me?
I was lost but He brought me in
Oh His love for me
Oh His love for me

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me
Look out 'cause here I come
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me

Oh-oh-oh-oh
I am who You say I am
Oh-oh-oh-oh
I am who You say I am
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh

Oh-oh-oh-oh
I am who You say I am
Oh-oh-oh-oh
I am who You say I am
Oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh, oh, oh

I am chosen
Not forsaken
I am who You say I am
You are for me
Not against me
I am who You say I am

I am chosen
Not forsaken
I am who You say I am
You are for me
Not against me
I am who You say I am

I am chosen
Not forsaken
I am who You say I am
You are for me
Not against me
I am who You say I am
I am who You say I am

When the sharpest words wanna cut me down
I'm gonna send a flood, gonna drown them out
I am brave, I am bruised
I am who I'm meant to be, this is me

Look out 'cause here I come (I am who You say I am)
And I'm marching on to the beat I drum (I am who You say I am)
I'm not scared to be seen
I make no apologies, this is me

Who the Son sets free
Oh is free indeed
I’m a child of God
Yes I am