Die Old Man
This song is so entwined with the long journey I’ve been on. As a teenager and a young adult struggling deeply with my sexuality and identity, I longed to be a different person to who I was. I didn’t want to be gay, I didn’t want to be isolated, I didn’t want to believe the lies of the enemy who kept me believing that I was worth very little to God or anyone else. In 1996, I’d had enough and the battle lines were drawn. I started to learn to fight. I learnt to recognise the lies of the enemy and how to refute them with the truth in God’s Word. I began to believe that what God says about me is true, that I have value because I’m His. There was no instant healing, just one little battle after another that involved me choosing to belief the truth over the rubbish I’d fed myself and allowed the enemy to feed me for years! The old Age had to die! I pray that as people listen to this song that they’ll be stirred to fight, to no longer put up with the chains that Satan has wrapped around them. I pray that they’ll get some people alongside them to fight with and to start choosing to believe God’s Word about themselves! There’s a battle going on, if you know Christ you are on the winning team, but you’ve got to fight, so get a little grrrrrr in you and get back into the arena.