Word of the Year Wednesdays - New Wine

I know it’s not Music Monday but this song speaks perfectly to the hope I have this year. What I want to believe can happen this year. This song speaks about God making me something new. It speaks about new wine being poured out of me. It talks about surrender. It talk of the freedom that comes with being made new.

The song is “New Wine” by Hillsong Worship. Give it a listen.

I started listening to this song a year ago when I thought new was going to be the word of the year in 2019. I thought it was amazing how this song landed in my lap and matched so beautifully with my word. The more I listened to it, the more I began to struggle with this verse. I couldn’t tell if I really meant it or not (spoiler - I didn’t).

“So make me Your vessel
Make me an offering
Make me whatever You want me to be
I came here with nothing
But all You have given me
Jesus, bring new wine out of me”

It was a beautiful verse, but I wasn’t honestly ready or willing to say make me into whatever you want me to be. I still had plenty of ideas on what my life should look like and I was still willing to fight and work for them. It didn’t sit right to say, “Okay God, whatever you want is fine by me.”. I mean I knew it should be that way and I literally could say those words, but I knew I wouldn’t mean them.

Honestly, I still have an image in my head today of what I would like my life to look like, but it’s an image that’s mostly blurry. It’s blurry because I want to be open to how God wants my life to look and I realize it might be different than I always imagined.

Being able to sing those words and mean them are key for me. I don’t want to sing/pray for something that I don’t actually believe. Once I could say that I wanted God to do those things with my life I got excited thinking of the next verse.

“'Cause where there is new wine
There is new power
There is new freedom
And the kingdom is here
I lay down my old flames
To carry Your new fire today”

So many new things are promised. There is so much hope when you lay it all down - when you give it all to God and choose to move forward with His fire leading the way. When you’re letting go of the old it’s an incredible comfort to know how amazing the new can be.

I’m hoping to discover that new power and freedom this year. Friends I hope that you too can lay down your own flames and carry new ones.

To Everything There Is A Season…

Kiley Ann