Are You Still Taking Flowers to Your Grave?

Hi and Happy Easter! “Christ is risen!”
This is John, Jan’s husband, a Guest Branch today.

One line of the lyrics for Got to Let It Go by MercyMe draws a picture that is in keeping with Jan’s most recent post Are You Guarding an Empty Tomb?

“Stop taking flowers to the grave of the old you that died.”

Let’s edit the main point of her blog to fit this new image:

But why are so many of us believers taking flowers to the grave of the old us that died, allowing the shame of memories, regrets, sins of the past to impinge themselves on our present as if these offenses are still remembered...and unforgiven?”

Guarding an empty tomb and taking flowers to an old grave both present the image of hanging onto our past rather than moving on in our new life in Christ.

As the chorus of the song encourages us, “You gotta let it go.”

Gotta Let It Go
MercyMe

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Is that person in the mirror looking back at you 
It’s true 
But you can’t see it ‘cause you’re stuck on what you've been through 

You got that white knuckle, red faced 
Kung fu grip on all your chains 
But that's not who are 

I'm here to let you know 
You gotta let it go 
You were made for something more 
So come on and let it go 
Oh oh oh 

Tell me why 
You'd think that you deserve a life of just getting by 
You are alive 
Stop taking flowers to the grave of the old you that died 

If God can take your sin and free ya 
Forget just like amnesia 
Why are you holding on 

I'm here to let you know 
You gotta let it go 
You were made for something more 
So come on and let it go 
Oh oh oh 

I'm here to let you know 
You gotta let it go 
You were made for something more 
So come on and let it go 
Oh oh oh 

You gotta let it go

I'm here to let you know 
You gotta let it go 
You gotta let it go 
I'm here to let you know 
You gotta let it go 
You gotta let it go