A simple title with super deep lyrics. A prayer-song in which God is asked to forgive our sins. Is there a more significant problem we need the Lord to solve?
The lyrics really hit home when there is the confession that we have denied Jesus by the way we live. Maybe we can identify with Peter when he denied Jesus after he promised he would die before denying His Lord. Haven’t we all made that bold claim, only to fail Jesus? What next? The answer: we humble ourselves before God’s mercy seat and ask for His forgiveness. There we find grace to help in time of need. We repent and keep moving forward toward our goal of heaven.
Read Luke 22:31-34,54-62. Then listen to a very powerful and convicting song entitled Forgiven by Skillet.
Luke 22:31-34
“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan has demanded to sift you men like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith will not fail; and you, when you have turned back, strengthen your brothers.” But he said to Him, “Lord, I am ready to go with You both to prison and to death!” But He said, “I tell you, Peter, the rooster will not crow today until you have denied three times that you know Me.”
Luke 22:54-62
Now they arrested Him and led Him away, and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance. After they kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and sat down together, Peter was sitting among them. And a slave woman, seeing him as he sat in the firelight, and staring at him, said, “This man was with Him as well.” But he denied it, saying, “I do not know Him, woman!” And a little later, another person saw him and said, “You are one of them too!” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!” And after about an hour had passed, some other man began to insist, saying, “Certainly this man also was with Him, for he, too, is a Galilean.” But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about!” And immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. And then the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had told him, “Before a rooster crows today, you will deny Me three times.” And he went out and wept bitterly.