Jordan Feliz - Best Of Me Lyrics

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Jordan Feliz - Best Of Me

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I’ve spent a lot of time convinced that "the best of me" was something I had to claw out of the wreckage. You spend years eating pig slop, hiding the smell of the gutter behind expensive cologne, and pretending you aren’t running from the guy you see in the mirror. Then Jordan Feliz sings about "the best of me" being found in Him, and honestly? It irritates me. It sounds too clean. Too light.

But then I look at the line: I said goodbye to my chains when I said hello to Your perfect love.

That’s not poetry to me. That’s a violent exchange. When you’ve been shackled to your own mistakes for as long as I have, you don’t just "say goodbye" to them. You rip them off, and you leave a layer of skin behind. It’s bloody. It’s messy. The "perfect love" he’s talking about isn't some soft glow; it’s the thing that actually has the authority to make me look up from the dirt.

Luke 15 talks about the father running. The boy—me—is still rehearsing his speech about being a hired hand. I’m thinking about the debt, the shame, the way I wasted the inheritance on things that left me hollow. I’m not thinking about "the best of me." I’m thinking about how not to be kicked out. But the Father doesn’t want my resume or my apology. He wants the boy. He throws a robe over the filth, and that’s when the chains finally lose their grip.

I struggle with the idea that He brings out the best of me. My experience usually involves Him exposing the absolute worst of me—the pride, the entitlement, the fear—so that He can replace it with Himself. Maybe that’s the "fire" Feliz mentions. Fire isn’t comfortable. Fire burns away the junk that I tried to pass off as personality. It’s hard to reconcile that with a song that sounds so upbeat. Sometimes I wonder if we’re hearing the same thing. My "home" wasn’t a place I walked back into with my head held high; it was a place I crawled into, expecting a door slammed in my face, only to find the table already set.

I’m still shaking off the dust. I still look over my shoulder, expecting the consequences to catch up. But the song forces me to admit something I hate acknowledging: I couldn't have fought my way out of that pit alone. I’m not a fighter. I was the guy who surrendered to the darkness because it was easier than facing the light. If there’s any "best" left in me, it’s not because I cleaned up my act. It’s because someone else decided I was worth the rescue. That’s a scandal I’m still trying to get my head around.