Pressing That Delete Button

I did it. Yes, I deleted all the songs on my iTunes. I felt strongly during worship today that I am meant to do that. Why? So that I can move on from the old to the new. That was why I felt I am to do it. 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:^[a] The old has gone, the new is here! ¹⁸ All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: ¹⁹ that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. ²⁰ We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. ²¹ God made him who had no sin to be sin^[b] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

I felt that I should move on from the past. Yeah, you ask, haven't you done so? I think in many ways I have, yet being here I have tried to hold on to what I am familiar with, and it is not a bad thing really, but it has come to a point where I must choose. I am at a crossroads - to advance or not to advance? To hold on to my belief system, my cultural worldview, my way of doing things...or to say yes to become a new creation? Because God is in the business of reconciliation. If this means being more reconciled to Him, then yes, I want to advance. Because having a few more threads connected to Him means that I am allowing Him more access to my life = more victory = more freedom. Heck yes, I want em'. 

Even if it means, deleting them also from my external hard disk. I can keep new songs, but old songs have to go. As I am typing this, I am reminded of the amount of time I have put in to get them from the CD to the hard disk to the computer. It was a time consuming process. Am I willing to let go of that? I have many times over the years tried to edit my song collection, yet never found the courage to delete the songs that I am so familiar with. From the genres to the individual songs. It is time to click that button.

Funny how difficult clicking can be when you find so much attachment to the things that you own. Alright, I'm just gonna end it right here. Officially, I am on a blogging streak!

p/s: In the process of deleting the songs from my hard drive, I did not find it as easy a process as deleting from my iTunes. All because I know I will still have access to the songs on my hard drive. Now I understand why I needed to delete them. I am attaching my identity and value to my collection! Now...you got to understand that I am not very attached to music even though I love music. But just this little exercise tells me how much a person who doesn't stick the earphones into her ears can be attached to music too. Swell. Now, what's next to delete God? More friends? Or FACEBOOK? Oh my goodness...I shudder to think that.