One of My Life Goals

It's 1 am and I'm still up because for the past 2 hours I've been reminded of the amazing victory that has occurred in my life. What reminded me of this? Recent life events and this song:


Names That Fell by Zach Williams

Verse 1:
I’ve got my eyes pealed on a watchtower
That bent then broke four years ago
There were 10 to 15 men inside
That screamed their stories were untold

I looked one right dead in the eye
While two more said, “Please don’t let us go!”

But the truth be known I didn’t mind
Watching that old belfry fold

Chorus:
1 was vengeance
2 was hate
3 was envy
and 4 was rape
and 5 and 6 was lust and lies
These were the names
That fell when the bell, yeah!

Verse 2:
There knuckles white, there faces red
And all in unison they said,

“You’ll never win
You’re way to old
Your father’s sin
Gave us your soul”

But two men stood up beside me
We stepped back to watch and see

That belfry started to sway and lean
And all in unison we screamed!

Chorus:
That 1 was vengeance
2 was hate
3 was envy
4 was rape
5 and 6 was lust and lies
These where the names that fell
When the bells chimed!

Verse 3:
Upon a Rock on which we stand
I see the belfry in the sand
4 years have gone
The sand is old; it’s covered all my sins with mold

And steady comes the midnight tide
To slowly crack the belfry’s pride

3 men and I tell stories told
Of father's sin still trapped inside

Chorus:
1 was vengeance, 2 was hate
Still we pray they’ll never wake
3 and 4 was envy and lies
These where the names that fell when the bell chimed
5 was greed and 6 was lust
7 was the name I’ll never trust
8 and 9 was envy and pride
10 was jealousy that binds
11 and 12 was pride and betrayal
13 was the sloth that killed me
14 was the judgment that tried

These are all the names that fell when the bell chimed!

This song is amazing to me! I feel like I'm the man standing on the rock watching this tower filled with the sins of my father, that are the same exact sins that I continually commit. I can see myself confessing these sins in the first chorus. I can see them in the 2nd verse mocking me, telling me that I will never be freed from them. I can see my struggle and eventual victory in the third verse and final chorus.

I love my dad but I know that he has passed some baggage and sins down to me, these are generational sins that I will likely pass down to my children, unless I do something about it. I know that I have the power to change my family tree. I will change my family tree for the better because my dad also passed down great inheritances in the form of faith and love.

One of my life goals: To continue to change my family tree for the better, in honor of God, my parents, my ancestors, my own family, my children, and their children.